F. L. Ying is a retired osteopath, married with young grandchildren. He has been from an early age interested in art and creative writing, and in childhood won several art awards and pre University won the Dickens Prize. He went on to write poems and stories and in 2021 published ‘The Ancestral Quest’ (under the pseudonym F. G. Kwong) and YA fiction novel ‘A Dangerous Riddle of Chance' (Book Guild).