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Chi Ta-wei (he/him) is a queer writer and scholar. In The New York Times, bestselling author Chloe Gong described his science-fiction novel The Membranes as “a landmark work of cyberpunk.”

First published in Chinese, The Membranes has been translated into Korean, Japanese, French, English, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Czech. The English translation by Ari Heinrich has received widespread critical acclaim. His speculative-fiction collection The Pearls has been published in France.

 

Many of his works are also available in audiobook and ebook formats in several languages.

 

Please visit his Linktree for links to the various editions of his works in different languages.

The English-, Korean-, and Japanese-language publishing rights to The Membranes are currently available through his rights agent, as are the rights in many other languages. Acclaimed, publication-ready English, Korean, and Japanese translations are also available for licensing. For rights inquiries, please contact his agent.

The Membranes will soon appear in Vietnamese, Turkish, and other languages.

His academic monograph A History of Tongzhi Literature, written in Chinese, traces LGBT literature in Taiwan from the 1960s to the new millennium. It is currently being translated into Korean, Japanese, and English. The Japanese edition will be available by the end of 2026. 

Chi received his PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and is an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.