Tong Wei-Ger, a Taiwanese author, received a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Theatre at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and currently serves as the full-time lecturer for the school. Tong’s works are chiefly in the form of novels, describing a wide variety of mundane lives through concise language, and using a sense of magical realism to interweave the connections among them. In 20l0, his work, Northwest Rain, won the Taiwan Literature Prize for Novel.