YU Yuen Lan (fiction writer, poet, nonfiction writer; Hong Kong) is the author of the novel 我是嬰 [Before I] (2023), poetry collection 島之肉 [Nowhere Land] (2022) and short stories collection 無一不野獸 [The Bestiary] (2018). In recent years, she also served as a judge for the Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards in the fiction category. Her work The Bestiary was nominated for the Renaissance Award 2019 for the literature category. Before I is her recent novel, attempting to break through her personal writing patterns and challenge existing local novel conventions in both form and content. She is currently a freelance journalist, writing feature articles and interviews for cultural magazines and online media. Her participation is made possible by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global.