Liang Hong (b.1973- ) is a writer, essayist and professor at Renmin University of China. Growing up in a village in rural China, Liang Hong’s talent and work ethic drove her to pursue writing and academia in the city. However, it is her determination to hold on to the memories of her rural upbringing that sets her apart from the crowd. Narrativising rural China, she has been heralded by critics as a trailblazer, focusing on the lives of ordinary rural people and exploring something other than the metropolis.

In addition to her novels, Liang is also a prolific writer of short stories and literary criticism, inlcuding the non-fiction study of Liang village, China in One Village, which has been translated into French, English and Japanese. She has won a number of prizes, including the Seventh Wenjin Books Award of the National Library of China and the Second Zhu Ziqing Prose award.