Yenlin Ku----the author

Yenlin Ku was born in Nanking, China and grew up in Kangshan, Taiwan. After going to college and graduate schools in Taipei and the US, she set up residence in Hsinchu, Taiwan with her mathematician husband Pei-yuan Wu.

Since the 1970s Yenlin has been involved in the feminist movement in Taiwan, while teaching at National Chiao Tung University. She was one of the co-founders of the Awakening Foundation, the Women’s Studies Program at National Taiwan University, the fembooks, and Taiwan Senior Leaders Association. She twice won the Ten Best Books of the Year Prize from the United Daily News with Schools of Feminist Thought and A Collection of Feminist Discourse respectively. In the late 1990s she was recruited into Taipei City Government as the first femocrat in Taiwan. Since then she has been keen on integrating feminist perspective into social policies. In 2006 she was offered the Family Value Award by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2009, she received the Lian Shih-chiu Literature Prize for Prose.

It All Starts with Journeys into the Unknown, her new book published by the leading Chiu Ko Publishing Company in October 2015, is a collection of essays and reflections upon life, feminism and social policies. It was selected as one of the Best Books of 2016 by National Museum of Taiwan Literature.