Chen Poyu is a poet, translator and literary critic from Taipei. He has published essays and poetry collections, including The Art of Rivalry, winner of Yang Mu Literary Awards in 2024. His recent publication, The Basement Tapes, is a book of collaborative texts and illustrations with Kuo Chien Yu. His Chinese translation of Robert Hass’s Summer Snow was published in 2022. He was also named one of the Ten Most Anticipated Writers born in the 1990s by Wenhsun Magazine in Taiwan.