Those who preceded Yang included Yu Kuang-chung, Yeh Wei-lien, Kenneth Pai, and Wang Wen-hsing. Later, when Engel married the writer Nieh Hua-ling, they established an international writer's program, and Ya Hsien, Cheng Chou-yu, Huang Chun-ming, and Wang Chen-ho would also go there to study.
在他之前有余光中、葉維廉、白先勇、王文興等，後來安格爾和作家聶華苓結婚後，在該校又創立「國際寫作班」，s 弦、鄭愁予、黃春明、王禎和等也陸續到此深造。