Lok Fung is a poet and cultural critic based in Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego in 2001. She had been the Jury of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in 1998 and the anchor of Radio Hong Kong’s Performing Arts program from 2005 to 2016. Her publications in Chinese include volumes of poetry, cultural criticism, short stories, and prose. Her book of poems, Flying Coffin, received the 9th Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature in 2007. Her critical work Butterfly of Forbidden Colors: The Artistic Image of Leslie Cheung received the Hong Kong Book Prize and “The Best Book of the Year” in 2008. In 2016, Lok Fung was awarded “Artist of the Year in the Arts Criticism Category” by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), and “City Contemporary Dance Laureate” by the City Contemporary Dance Company. She was awarded again “Artist of the Year in the Literary Arts Category” by the HKADC in 2023
香港大學文學士及哲學碩士，美國加州大學聖地牙哥校區比較文學博士。曾擔任台灣金馬獎電影評審委員、香港電台廣播節目《演藝風流》主持。著有《飛天棺材》、《頹城裝瘋》、《第三身》等，並有英譯詩集《自我紙盒藏屍的日子》（Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box）和《愛在創傷的城》（ Love in the City of Trauma），評論集《世紀末城巿：香港的流行文化》《禁色的蝴蝶：張國榮的藝術形象》等。其中詩集《飛天棺材》獲2007年第九屆香港中文文學雙年獎詩組首獎；文化評論集《禁色的蝴蝶：張國榮的藝術形象》獲「2008香港書獎」及「我最喜愛年度好書」等獎項。2016年獲得香港藝術發展局頒發「藝術家年獎」(藝術評論界別)、香港城市當代舞蹈團頒發「城市當代舞蹈達人獎2016」；2023年再度獲得「藝術家年獎」(文學藝術界別)。