Irene Hsiao received her education in literature and science on scholarships at UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in Word Riot, elimae, and A Clean Well-Lighted Place. Her critical writing has been published in the Cambridge Quarterly, Victorian Poetry, Literary Imagination, and Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. She has received a Louis Martz Prize from the William Carlos Williams Society and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She took these photos while teaching in the English department at National Taipei University of Technology.

．美國加州柏克萊大學畢業
．芝加哥大學英國文學博士
．詩歌創作刊載於 Word Riot, elimae, 及 A Clean Well-Lighted Place, 並獲提名 Pushcart 獎。
．學術論文發表於 Cambridge Quarterly, Victorian Poetry, Literary Imagination, 及 Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 等專刊。
．曾獲William Carlos Williams學會 Louis Martz 獎。

本書照片為作者任教於台北科技大學英國文學系時所攝。