As a mixed media artist and bilingual poet, Cymn Lai Fong Wong 黃千芳grew up in Hong Kong and currently lives in Maryland USA.  She has been named Chosen Artists for Winning Entry at the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibitions, 1994, 1996, 1998, and honored with the Ideco International Painting Award in Spain (the Grand Prize) in 1997, Wong exhibited her art works widely across the East to the West.  Obtaining her B.A., B.F.A., M.Ed., and Ph.D. in philosophy, Fine Arts, Aesthetics and Art Education, Cymn Wong served as a Creative Arts lecturer at the Hong Kong Education University and Art Curator for The Airport Authority Hong Kong. Since the early 90s, Wong also has had extensive publications on poetry and art, including a book of art and English poetry, FIRE ON THE ZEN, recently published by The New Academia Publishing, Washington DC, 2021.  Praising for Lai Fong's spectacular synchronized language in portraying an epic canvas on Hong Kong, this book has been rated for 5 stars by Amazon's nationally recognized literary critic.