Taiwanese literature
Yang started writing when she was in high school. Although she won the first prize of the poetry category in the writing contest held by her school, her early works were mostly prose. She started creating a large amount of poems when she was at university. The popularization of the Internet from late 1990s to early 2000s provided her with the platform to share her works with the world. Yang frequently posted her works on poetry BBS and her blog, from 1998 to 2002, she has published around 230 poems and 90 prose online. Since the establishment in 1998, in three years' time her blog had been viewed for over 260 thousand times, which made Yang an internet self-publishing celebrity and pioneer in Taiwan. In 2003, Yang published her first poetry collection, "The Civilization of Holding One’s Breath;" the next year she published her first prose collection, "Sea Breeze and Sparks." After getting her PhD degree, Yang works as an assistant professor of the Chinese Literature Department at the National Tsing Hua University. She has published various critical article and research books of contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese literature. To promote Chinese and Taiwanese literature and poetry, Yang occasionally gives lectures at different literary events. Also, she has been one of the curators of the Taipei Poetry Festival since 2011.