Born in 1978, Croter Hung lives in Kaohsiung and is a designer and illustrator who began his independent creative career in 2004. His picture book What Would Take You Away with poet Miao Wang was selected for the BRAW Amazing Bookshelf (the top 100 titles entered for the Ragazzi Award) at the 2022 Bologna Book Fair and won the 2022 Golden Tripod Award for Book Illustration.