Ping Lu is a Taiwan-based fiction author and syndicated columnist as well as a prominent voice of social criticism. Her critical assessments of well-known historical characters, including those in The Taiwan Histories Relived Trilogy, have helped a generation of readers reinterpret their roles in history from new and more-nuanced perspectives. Ping is a recipient of the National Award for Arts and the Wu San-Lien Award for Literature. Her long-form novels Love and Revolution, The Story of Teresa, and The River Darkens and a collection of her short stories have been published in translation in English, French, Japanese, Russian, Czech, and other languages.