Ian Rowen is an associate professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at Kyushu University. His books include Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror (2021).

Ti-han Chang is a senior teaching fellow and the deputy director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her books include Reorienting Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific (2025).

Darryl Sterk is an associate professor of translation at Lingnan University. He has translated works by a number of Taiwanese writers, including Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Ocean (Columbia, 2025).