Chen Ko Hua (Taiwan) was born in Hualein, Taiwan in 1961, Ko-Hua Chen is a famous and controversial poet and gay writer. He is an ophthalmologist in Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Associate Professor at the National Yang-Ming University, Taipei. He has won several important literature awards of poetry since his teenage and published more than thirty books of his poems, short stories and articles in Taiwan. Besides, he is also a visual artist, photographer and a lyric writer. His books of translated poems in German, English and Japanese will be published in 2011.

陳克華，一九六一年生於台灣省花蓮市，山東省汶上縣人。台北榮民總醫院眼科主治醫師，國立陽明大學眼科副教授。曾獲得文學獎多次包括中國時報文學獎，聯合報文學獎，出版詩集、散文、小說、影評等逾卅冊，歌詞創作百餘首，並多次展出其繪畫及攝影作品，其詩集英文、德文及日文譯本將於2011年出版。