Born in 1953, Yuen co-founded the literary magazine 《綠角》 [Green Corner] and started writing in secondary school under the influence of the civil-rights era. He studied in Canada and France, and returned to Hong Kong in the 1980s. After publishing his poetry collection 《你還有沒有寫詩》[You haven’t started writing poems], he founded No Hurry Story Workshop and devoted himself to storytelling.