After completing a graduate degree in sociology at Tunghai University she helped a friend run a bookstore in Taichung, and later set up a cultural studio and began to engage in cultural studies and editing projects.
台北長大的馮小非，東海大學社會學研究所畢業後曾在台中幫朋友經營書店，後來成立文化工作室，從事文史調查、企劃編輯工作。