Terao Tetsuya graduated from National Taiwan University with degrees in Computer Science Information Engineering. He earned a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon and worked as an engineer at Google before turning to writing full-time. He published debut short story collection Spent Bullets and essay collection Overfitting. Spent Bullets won Taiwan Literature Awards’ Golden Book Award and the New Bud Award. A movie adaptation of the same title is under active production. He lives in Taiwan.

Terao Tetsuya’s appearance is supported by the Taipei Cultural Centre.

Credit YJ Chen