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Chi Ta-wei (he/him) is a queer writer and scholar. His science fiction novel The Membranes, first published in Chinese, has been translated into Korean, Japanese, French, English, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Czech. The English edition, translated by Ari Heinrich, has been recognized as an Amazon (USA) “Best of #BookTok” title. His speculative fiction collection The Pearls is published in France. 

 

His academic monograph A History of Tongzhi Literature, written in Chinese, traces LGBT literature in Taiwan from the 1960s to the new millennium. The book is currently being translated into Korean, Japanese, and English. Many of his works in different languages are also available in audiobook and ebook formats.

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With a PhD from UCLA, he is an associate professor of Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.