Terao Tetsuya graduated from National Taiwan University with a degree in Computer Science Information Engineering. He earned a master’s degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon and worked as an engineer at Google before turning to writing full-time. He has published a short story collection, Spent Bullets, and an essay collection, Overfitting. Spent Bullets won the Taiwan Literature Awards’ Golden Book Award and the New Bud Award. A movie adaptation of Spent Bullets is under production. He lives in Taiwan.