Born in Beijing in 1957, TIE Ning started her literary creation from 1975 on. Her main works are novel The Bathing Women, short stories and mid-length novels How Long is Forever (winner of the 2^nd Lu Xun Literature Award), Opposite Side (winner of Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award by China Writers Association), The Red Shirt Without Buttons and June’s Big Topic (winners of the 3^rd National Excellence Awards for Mid-length Novel and Short Story), prose collection A Woman’s Nights (winner of the 1^st Lu Xun Literature Award) and so on. With so many national awards of literature, many of her works have been adapted into films or TV plays as well as published abroad in different versions of foreign languages. 

1979    novel editor of the editorial office of the magazine Flower Mountain by Baoding Federation of Literary and Art Circles 

1982    joined China Writers Association (CWA) as a board director 

1984   professional writer and later vice president of Hebei Federation of Literary and Art Circles (HFLAC) 

1985-1995    exchange tour in Columbia University, Harvard University and Stanford University in USA 

1996   president of HFLAC and vice president of CWA 

2006    president of CWA for the 1^st time 

2011    president of CWA for the 2^nd time 

2016    president of CFLAC and president of CWA for the 3^rd time