Chen Li was born in Hualien, Taiwan, in 1954, and graduated from the English Department of National Taiwan Normal University. Regarded as one of the most innovative and exciting poets writing in Chinese today, he is a prolific prose writer and translator as well as the author of fourteen books of poetry. With his wife Chang Fen-ling, he has translated over twenty volumes of poetry into Chinese, including the works of Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Wisława Szymborska, Tomas Tranströmer, and Akiko Yosano. The recipient of many awards, such as the National Award for Literature and Arts and the Taiwan Literature Award, he is the organizer of the annual Pacific Poetry Festival in his hometown. In 2005, he was listed as one of the “Top Ten Contemporary Poets of Taiwan.” In 2012, he represented Taiwan at Poetry Parnassus, the Olympic Poetry Festival held in London. In 2014, he was invited to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
陳黎，1954年生，台灣花蓮人，台灣師大英語系畢業。被視為「當今中文詩界最能創新且令人驚喜的詩人之一」，著有十四本詩集，且是多產的散文作者和譯者。與妻子張芬齡合譯有二十餘種詩集，包括普拉絲、奚尼、聶魯達、帕斯、辛波絲卡、特朗斯特羅默及與謝野晶子等人作品。曾獲國家文藝獎、台灣文學獎等諸多獎項，是一年一度在花蓮舉行的「太平洋詩歌節」策劃人。2005年獲選「台灣當代十大詩人」。2012年獲邀代表台灣參加倫敦奧林匹克詩歌節。2014年受邀參加美國愛荷華大學「國際寫作計劃」。