Chang was born in 1941 in Tongshan, Jiangsu Province in mainland China. Her first collection of prose, That Side of the Rug, published at the tender of age of 23, won the Sun Yat-sen Literary Award, establishing her as a leading female literary voice. She has written poetry and stage plays, and is a past recipient of the Wu San-lien Award and the National Literature and Art Achievement Award.
張曉風，1931 年生，江蘇銅山人，23 歲時即因第一本散文集《地毯的那一端》嶄露頭角，榮獲中山文藝散文獎，奠定了文壇才女的地位；她還寫詩、編劇，先後得過吳三連、國家文藝獎，也當選過 10 大傑出女青年。