Cheng, Wan-Jung

Introduction

Born in 1996, Cheng graduated from National Dong Hwa University with a degree in Chinese Literature and worked as an editor of the translated literature. Cheng is currently studying at the Graduate Institute of Transdisciplinary Study on Creative Writing and Literature at Taipei National University of the Arts. She has received numerous awards, such as the Lin Rong San Literature Award, the 7th Yang Mu Poetry Award, a creative grant from the National Culture and Arts Foundation, and was selected for the Taipei Poetry Festival's "15-Second Video Poem". Cheng has independently published a book of poems, "Some Wandering Fish", and a collection of poems, "I Share a Room with My Ghost". Her poems have been selected as part of the "The Best Taiwanese Poetry 2020" and the "Selected Poems of the New Century and New Generation".

Resident planning

The deepest depths of the night are a refuge for the weak and a hiding place for all evil. The former is like a fugitive passing through the night, and the latter is like a thief stealing in the dark. In addition, we also seem to tend to associate the night with something to be afraid of, for example, before going to sleep there are many people afraid of the night, over time, this portal will be as thick as a cocoon. The darkness of the night carries a vast repository of the imagination, concealing or accommodating many people and things we are accustomed to ignore, afraid to look at, and difficult to understand. However, it is also because it is difficult to see in the darkness that the entrance of such a cocoon makes people curious. Isn't it like another kind of "dark tourism" for those who want to find out the reasons behind it? This collection of poems, "The Cocoon of the Night," is intended to explore the interior of the night through three different themes: "Black-crowned night heron," "Shriveled Lactation," and "Skeletal Centaurs". During her residency, Cheng expects to complete the poem "Skeleton Centaurs".