Li Kotomi (李琴峰, born on 26 December 1989), is the pen name of a Taiwanese fiction writer, translator, and essayist in Mandarin and Japanese.

Her literary career began in 2017 with the Japanese novel titled Hitorimai (Chinese: 獨舞 English: Solo Dance), which received the 60th Gunzo Prize for New Writers that year.

[5][6] Following graduation, she moved to Japan to study for a master's degree in the Department of Japanese Language and Literature at Waseda University in 2013.

While commuting to work on the train, she came up with the idea for her debut novel, Hitorimai (Chinese: 獨舞 English: Solo Dance),[7] which was awarded the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2017.

Porarisu ga furisosogu yoru (The Night of the Shining North Star, published in February 2020) received the Art Encouragement Newcomer Award.

[10] She won the 2021 Akutagawa Prize for Higanbana ga saku shima (The Island Where Red Spider Lilies Bloom)[1][11][12][13]Toumei na maku o hedatenagara, published in Aug 2022, is a collection of essays she had written for over four years, from her debut years, 2017 to 2022, when she received the Akutagawa Prize.