杨争光,1957年生。陕西乾县人。山东大学中文系毕业。自1979年开始发表诗作,1980年发表小说,至今已发表众多诗作和小说作品。到目前为止,杨争光的作品虽然不算多,但他无疑是近年创作个性比较显菩的中国作家实力派的代表作家之一。在陕西文坛,他和贾平凹、陈忠实被誉为“文坛 Yang Zhengguang, born in 1957. Shaanxi dry county people. Shandong University graduated from the Chinese Department. He has published poems since 1979, published novels in 1980, and has published numerous poems and novel works. Up till now, though Yang Zhiguang’s works are not too numerous, he is undoubtedly one of the representative writers of the Chinese writers’ strength faction who have been more creative in recent years. In the Shaanxi literary arena, he and Jia Pingwa and Chen Zhongshi were hailed as “the literary arena.”