Chang Ying-Tai (張瀛太) is an award-winning Taiwanese novelist and short story writer. She received her PhD in Literature from National Taiwan University and serves as a Distinguished Professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei. 

Over the past decades, she has received numerous prestigious awards, including First Prize for Fiction and Prose from the China Times, First Prize for Fiction from the United Daily News and the Central Daily News, the Book of the Year Award at the Taiwan International Book Fair, the Award for Literary Writing from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, and the Lennox Robinson Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts. She was also a finalist for the Two-Million-Yuan Award for Fiction, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in Asia. 

Chang Ying-Tai is the author of three short story collections and four novels. Two of her novels—The Bear Whispers to Me and As Flowers Bloom and Wither—have been translated into English and published by Balestier Press (UK) to critical acclaim.