Chen Li (陳黎), born in 1954 in Taiwan, is the author of 14 books of poetry and a prolific prose writer. He has published some 20 volumes of poetry in Chinese translation, including the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Wislawa Szymborska. Chen Li has taught creative writing at National Dong Hwa University and is the organizer of the Pacific Poetry Festival.