Born and raised in Chiayi, Tēnn Sūn-Tshong is a former publishing editor, radio show host, and Taigi (Taiwanese Hokkien language) consultant for Taiwan Public Television Service (PTS)’s Taigi Channel. His literary career spans published poetry collections, novels, essays, picture books, screenplays, and lyrics. While most of his recent published works are in Taigi, Eating Taiwanese is written in Mandarin interspersed with appropriately annotated Taigi words and phrases.