施玮博士：

诗人、作家、画家、学者。祖籍江苏苏州。曾在北京鲁迅文学院、复旦大学中文系学习。1996年移居美国，获硕士、博士学位，研究旧约圣经文学与中国古典文学比较，现居美国洛杉矶。任华人基督徒文学艺术者协会主席、《国际日报》文艺部主任，曾兼任电台嘉宾主持、电视台制片人。

从八十年代末起，在全国及海外各地报刊上发表诗歌小说、散文随笔、评论400余万字，画作五十多幅。主编《胡适文集》《灵性文学丛书》等。诗歌小说等多次获奖，长篇小说《红墙白玉兰》获世界华文著述奖小说第一名。已出版《歌中雅歌》等十四部作品，与音乐家合作创作大型音乐交响诗《基督颂》、组歌《主爱中华》等。

自幼热爱色彩，1997年起在美国新墨西哥州学习油画创作，在美国洛杉矶、圣地雅歌、东谷等地举办多次个人灵性艺术诗画展。画作被美国、台湾、中国等地个人及展馆收藏，在美国和中国的众多报刊发表，并被收录在多本画册中。美国《世界日报》《多维时报》《中国日报》等中英文报纸报刊；台湾东森电视台；浙江卫视等都曾报导其个人画展并介绍其画作。美国《Los Angeles daily》《国际日报》、中国新闻网；中国《上层》、《诗选刊》等，曾刊登施玮诗画的专题介绍和评述。

Dr. Rachel Shi:

As a poet, writer, painter and scholar, Ms. Shi grew up in the beautiful city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province.  Early on, she studied in the Lu Xun Liberal Art College, and in the Department of Chinese Literature in Fudan University.  She came to the US in 1966 to study, and has since obtained both master’s and doctor’s degrees.  Her thesis work was in the area of comparative study of literatures between the Old Testament and Chinese Classics.  She lives in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.  Besides being the Chairperson of The Association of Chinese Christian Literature and Art, she is also in charge of the Art & Literature column of the International Daily, a Chinese newspaper.  In between, she has also served as a guest talk show host and as producer of television shows.

Since the 1980’s, her total publications in poems, novels, essays and commentaries have exceeded four million words, along with more than fifty paintings.  She was the chief editor of “Collected Work of Hu Shi,” and “Series of Spiritual Literature,” etc.  She has received multiple honors for her poems and novels.  She has published fourteen novels, including “The Song of Songs.”  Her novel, “Red Wall & Magnolia,” was awarded the first prize in a worldwide Chinese literature competition. She has collaborated with musicians to create large scale symphonic poems, “Ode to Christ,” and “The Lord Loves China” suite.

Ms. Shi’s love of color started when she was very young.  In 1997, she began to study oil painting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  In the past years, she has held many personal exhibitions of her works in literature and in art, in Los Angeles, San Diego and East Valley.  Her art works have been collected by individuals and art galleries across the US, Taiwan and China.  Her works have been cited and covered in newspapers and periodicals both in America and in China.  Some of her art works were included in art albums.  “World Daily News,” “DW News,” “China Daily News,” in the US, ETTV in Taiwan, and Zhejiang Satellite TV have all reported her works and her exhibitions.  "Los Angeles daily," "International Daily," China News Net, China "Upper Class," "Selected Poems," etc., all have published poems and paintings by Ms. Shi, as well as news reports and commentaries.