Abby Chao

Introduction

Born in the suburbs of Taoyuan, she has participated in the screenwriting of TV dramas such as Girls Dorm’s Secrets and The Summer Temple Fair. After graduating from National Yilan University, Abby transitioned from a fiction writer into screenwriter. She won the 2016 Excellent Screenplay Awards for her work The Evil of Dolphins, and in 2017, she won the second prize of the 7th BenQ Award for Chinese Cinema Fiction for Dolphin at the End of the Rope. The novel focuses on a murder case to bring out the cycle of bullying in school, and the plot and character settings of the powerful bullying the disadvantaged, reflecting the microcosm of Taiwan society. The novel’s surprising twists and sharp ending is a direct response to human nature, which garnered acclaim and recognition with the second prize.

Resident planning

In Tibetan Buddhism, the three poisons, namely Moha (delusion, confusion), Raga (greed, sensual attachment), and Dvesha (aversion, hate) are the three emotions that arise from the objective reflection of natural things by the five senses. In this Writer-in-Residency program, Abby attempts to use three short stories, namely an urban romance, thriller and comedy, to explore the clash between human nature and the three poisons. Through three separate stories, the characters are linked to each other to describe how delusion, greed, and aversion affect people’s destiny. In addition, she hopes to use different genres of fiction to let readers understand more about the relevance of Tibetan Buddhism to life.