C. J. Anderson-Wu
Taiwan
Social
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C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) is a Taiwanese writer and literary activist whose work explores themes of historical trauma, transitional justice, and human rights. Her writing focuses on Taiwan’s authoritarian past, particularly the White Terror period, during which tens of thousands of people were persecuted under martial law.
Anderson-Wu’s acclaimed short story collections Impossible to Swallow (2017) and The Surveillance (2021) delve into the psychological and societal scars left by this era. Her third book, Endangered Youth—Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine (2025), expands her scope to examine the shared struggles for freedom and identity in these three regions. Her poetry collection, Clear My Name—Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine (2025), was shortlisted for the Flying Island Poetry Manuscript Contest. Her novella The Sixth Man, which investigates the shift of self-identity in Taiwan during the past decades, will be published in 2026.
Anderson-Wu’s stories and poems have received recognition from numerous international literary platforms, including the Strands Lit International Flash Fiction Competition(2019), the Art of Unity Creative Award by the International Human Rights Art Festival(2022), the Writers’ Mastermind Contest(2022), the Invisible City Blurred Genre Literature Competition(2023), the Wordweavers Literature Contest(2023, 2025), the Flying Island Poetry Manuscript Contest(2024), the Premio Letterario Internazionale Città di Arona(2025), and the Miserere Review Writing Competition(2026).
