刘荒田,原名刘毓华,1948年出生于台山水步,早年当知青,之后当过教师和公务员,1980年移民美国。在美国,刘荒田在为生活打拼之余,始终没有放弃华文文学创作,先后出版散文随笔集二十一部,诗集四部。2009年荣获首届“中山杯”全球华侨文学奖散文类首奖。刘荒田从2011年开始,在生活了三十二年的美国旧金山和岭南名镇佛山两地轮流居住,实现了生命的洄流。2015年,江苏凤凰文艺出版社出版了刘荒田的散文新著《人生三山》。 Liu Yutian, formerly known as Liu Yuhua, was born in 1940 in Taishan Shuibu, when he was an educated youth and later became a teacher and civil servant. He immigrated to the United States in 1980. In the United States, Liu Arata still spare no efforts to make a living while never giving up writing Chinese literature. He has published twenty-one essays and essays and four poems. In 2009 won the first “Zhongshan Cup ” Overseas Chinese Literature Prize prizes of the first prize. Liu Haandian from 2011 onwards, living in San Francisco for 32 years and Foshan, Lingnan town live in turns, to achieve the return of life. In 2015, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House published a new essay by Liu Hatian about Life in Three Mountains.