Liao Mi studied industrial product design and journalism at university. After becoming acquainted with a local poetry society, she began writing poems and innovated a new medium, negative poetry, in which poetry is printed on film negatives, and read by slowly unwinding the roll of film from its canister. Her poetry collection Useless Things was published in 2015. There’s Something About My Brother, her first collection of essays, received a grant from the Taipei Literature Awards in 2019, and won the Taiwan Literature Award in the following year.