Brian Hioe (丘琦欣) is a Taiwanese American writer, translator, activist, and DJ based out of Taipei. In 2014, he was one of the founders of New Bloom Magazine (破土), an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific that was founded after the Sunflower Movement, which he was a participant in as a student activist. His writing has been published in The Guardian, The Nation, Dissent, Art Forum, and other publications, and media appearances range from Democracy Now to Netflix’s Midnight Asia.