Michelle M. Wu is Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at National Taiwan University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She has been translating and interpreting since graduating from the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies at Fujen Catholic University in 1992. She has translated essays and short stories for the Taipei Chinese PEN for many years, as well as Hsiao Li-hung's A THOUSAND MOONS ON A THOUSAND RIVERS, which was published by Columbia University Press in 2000. She is currently working on the translation of Tsou Yung-Shan’s novel, THE WAITING ROOM.