Yu Xingya, born in Kangping, Liaoning Province in 1958, graduated from Fuxin Coal Mine School in Liaoning Province in 1978, majoring in surveying. He has worked in the Geophysical Survey Brigade of Liaoning Coalfield Geological Company and Kangping County Urban Construction Bureau, and now he works in the planning department of Tieling City. Since his youth, he began to dream about literature and published essays, poems and miscellaneous literature. The Seduction of Middle Age is his first novel.