Hello BOSS,
THIS THIS THIS IS MUKYU

Born and raised in Hong Kong and now based in Taipei, Mukyu (沐羽) is a writer working across fiction, essays, and translation. He is the author of the short story collections Perhaps in the Smoke（《煙街》）and Generations（《代代》）, as well as the essay collections Underdog（《痞狗》）and Floating in Space（《造次》）, which probe the boundaries and possibilities of contemporary Chinese nonfiction writing.

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His film adaptation project Nothing Happened（《什麼都沒有發生》）was selected for the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (金馬創投), and he is also the Chinese translator of Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom's Milk Tea Alliance（《奶茶聯盟》）. Mukyu’s work has received major literary recognition in Taiwan, including the Openbook Good Book Award and the Grand Prize at the Taipei International Book Exhibition Award, and has been shortlisted for the Taipei Literature Writing Grant. His essays have been selected for Jiuge's Best Chinese Prose Selection of 2023.

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His writing can be found at mukyu.online, and his ongoing reading notes and reflections are shared on Instagram under wouldprefernotcando.