Yan Ai-Lin

Yan Ai-Lin (born 1968) is a Taiwanese poet. She was the first female poet to create a series of erotic poems, which aroused many discussions in the aspect of the gender issue. She is known primarily as an author of mainly new poetry, prose creation, and cartoon criticism. Her most representative book Bones, Skin and Flesh (骨皮肉, 1997) is the first collection of erotic poems written by female poet in Taiwan. Yan's literary production won many awards, including the National Outstanding Young Poet Award, the Outstanding Award for New Poem Creation from the Ministry of Culture, the Genesis Poetry Magazine 35th Anniversary Poet Award, the first Taipei Literature Award, the Wu Zhuoliu New Poetry, and so on. Yan's poetry was influenced by different aspects, and her works also influenced people, society, and the academic field.