Ayri Chang is widely recognized as one of Taiwan’s most influential voices of the post-90s generation. Born in 1992, she is the creator of the Story Trading Company Facebook page. Based on the concept of “sharing stories with strangers over dessert”, the page has amassed nearly 90k followers since its founding in 2013. Her first essay collection Drying Your Name in the Sun was published in 2016. The following year, her follow-up collection Slowed Down My Time earned her numerous accolades, including inclusion in Kingstone Bookstore’s Ten Most Influential Writers list and Eslite Bookstore’s Best Books Awards.