LAU Yee-ching, born December 1949 in Hong Kong, started to write poetry in the 1970s. He has received a number of poetry awards in Hong Kong, including the Hong Kong Youth Literature Awards, Workers’ Literature Awards, and the Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature. In 1987, he co-founded the poetry magazine One-Ninth with his friends, and was involved in editing the first few issues. Lau was appointed a referee for several poetry awards in Hong Kong including the Hong Kong Youth Literature Awards, the Workers’ Literature Awards, and the Qiu Ying Poetry Award. His book of poems, And So You Look at the Festive Lights along the Street (1997), won the Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature. In 2010, he published a more complete edition of this book, And So, Roll the Stone, You Look at the Festive Lights along the Street, which is a collection of more than 130 poems.
飲江，原名劉以正，1949年12月生於香港，七十年代開始新詩創作，曾獲「香港青年文學奬」、「工人文學奬」、「職青文藝奬」及「香港中文文學奬」等詩歌創作奬項。1987年與朋友創辦《九分壹》詩刊，並參與早期編輯工作。他歷任多屆「香港中文文學奬」詩歌奬評委，並多次參與「香港青年文學奬」、「工人文學奬」、「大學文學奬」、「秋螢詩奬」、「李聖華詩奬」等評審工作。其詩集《於是你沿街看節日的燈飾》於1997年出版，並獲「香港中文文學雙年奬」。2010年出版另一詩集《於是搬石你沿街看節日的燈飾》，收錄詩作一百三十多首，為較完整選本。