Apyang Imiq is an Indigenous writer from Taiwan; he belongs to the Truku tribe, in Hualien. He was named Best New Author at the 2021 Taiwan Literature Awards. After finishing his master’s degree at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University, he returned to Hualien, serving as an associate of the Community Development Committee and tribal council officer. He has been awarded the Taiwanese Indigenous People Literature Award multiple times and also was granted patronage by the National Culture and Arts Foundation in 2020. “River Dam of Confession” is from Imiq’s book of essays, Growing Up in a Tree Hollow.
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
River Dam of Confession
I grew up in a tree hollow. If a tree hollow is a kind of metaphor (it is), I want to knead it into flesh, like the soft-sweet of my […]