Chiang-Sheng Kuo (郭強生) is one of the most exciting storytellers and prose stylists in Taiwanese literature today. He has written a number of novels, essay collections, and plays, of which The Piano Tuner is the first to be published in English. A resident of Taipei, he earned a PhD in drama from New York University and teaches in the Department of Language and Creative Writing at National Taipei University of Education.

Fernando Chien is an experienced audiobook narrator, actor, writer, and director. A magician in training, he has a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Howard Goldblatt is a translator of Chinese fiction from China and Taiwan, including works by Chiang-Sheng Kuo, Liu Zhenyun, and Nobel Prize winner Mo Ya. A resident of Layette, Colorado, he taught Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century.

Sylvia Li-chun Lin is a full-time translator and writer. A former teacher and scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, she lives in Lafayette, Colorado.