Hai-Sui Yu, who writes under the pen-name Nan Xiangzi, was born in Huizhou, Anhui Province, China. He is a world-famous expert in geomechanics as well as a poet. He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham and is now Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for the University of Leeds. He also served as an interim Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Leeds from 2023 to 2024. He has been included in the prestigious annual Who’s Who (A&C Black) since 2011. His poetry collections include Remembrance of the Heart, Dreams Returning from the Horizon, Ode to the Beginning of Winter, and Lamp in the Wind and Rain. He was named ‘Outstanding Poet of the Year’ in the 4th annual China New Poetry Awards, and received the Silver Willow Award at the 9th annual Cambridge Xu Zhimo Poetry and Arts Festival.
余海歲，號南鄉子，皖南徽州人。世界著名岩土力學家，詩人，牛津大學博士，英國皇家工程院院士。現任英國利茲大學常務副校長。曾任英國利茲大學署理校長及英國諾丁漢大學副校長。2011年入選世界名人錄。著有個人詩詞集《心相憶》、《天涯夢回》、《立冬辭》及《風雨燈》。曾獲第四屆中國年度新詩獎「年度傑出詩人獎」和第九屆「劍橋徐志摩詩歌獎」暨「徐志摩銀柳葉詩歌獎」。