Liao Hui-ying, the winner of the 29th Wu San Lien Award for prose fiction in 2006, was born in Taichung County's Fengyuan City in 1948. Her father was a mechanical engineer who graduated from the Japanese-era Taihoku School of Industry (now National Taipei University of Technology) and her mother was the cherished youngest daughter of a doctor of Western medicine.
2006 年獲第 29 屆吳三連文學獎小說類得主的廖輝英，1948 年生於台中縣豐原市，父親是日治時「台北工業學校」畢業的機械工程師，母親則是西醫家庭中受寵的么女。