Biography

Cheng Jiaoyang is a writer, lecturer, and brand strategist. She has published several fiction collections, including Pink and White Shower（《節果決明》）, Typhoon（《打風》）, Flight to the Weightless Island（《飛往無重島》）, A Crow Takes Flight on the Island Line（《烏鴉在港島線起飛》）, and Dangerous Animals（《危險動物》）. Among them, The Crow Takes Flight on the Island Line（《烏鴉在港島線起飛》）was selected for ALTA’s 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorships in the United States.

She was named an Annual Featured Writer under the 5th Wang Meng Young Writers Support Program（第五屆「王蒙青年作家支持計劃‧年度特選作家」）. She is also a recipient of the Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards（香港青年文學獎）and the New Writer Award at Guangzhou Literature and Art’s Biennial Urban Fiction Exhibition（《廣州文藝》「都市小說雙年展」新人獎）. She has been shortlisted for the China Times Literature Award（時報文學獎）and the Yu Dafu Fiction Prize（郁達夫小說獎）, among others. Her work Hong Kong Express（《香港快車》）was selected for the “Blue Bird Writers-Directors Take Flight” program（「青鳥作家導演起飛」計劃）.

Experience at MALCS

For me, studying at MALCS was like swimming in the sea of literature and cinema. The fantastic teaching of the professors was like a diamond-like shimmer on the sea wave. I absorbed a lot of narrative skills by deeply learning the highlighted literary works and films from the professors. I especially enjoyed the progress of creating a story in English as my final project. How to tell a fascinating story to criticize the property hegemony and poverty of the elderly in Hong Kong? This was the topic of my thesis. The knowledge of surrealism and fantasy writing that I learned in the course “Hong Kong and Beyond” led me to find a perfect angle to start my story. I created a surreal house hidden in a turtle shell as a key metaphor throughout the story. Recently, this story has attracted the attention of film companies to acquire its drama adaptation rights.

For me, studying at MALCS was like swimming in the sea of literature and cinema. The fantastic teaching of the professors was like a diamond-like shimmer on the sea wave.