Novelist and screenwriter Katniss Hsiao holds a BA in history from National Taiwan University. A lifelong film buff and fan of crime fiction, she is currently a project manager at Outland, a film production company based in Taipei. Before We Were Monsters, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Taiwan Literature Award and the Taipei Book Fair Award, and was named one of the best books of 2022 by Eslite and Readmoo, Taiwan’s largest brick-and-mortar and e-book platform. In 2023 her debut screenplay Flare was awarded with Excellent Screenplay at the Golden Harvest Awards.