Cecep Syamsul Hari, born in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia in May 1st, 1967. Since 1992, he has published several books in creative writings (poetry, short-story, novel, and essay) and in translations. His works internationally published in several journals and anthologies, and have been translated into several foreign languages. He was a writer in residence in South Korea (2006), Malaysia (2007/2008), Hungary (2009/2015), Czech (2009), Australia (2009), China (2014), Azerbaijan (2019). He is the founder of Sastra Digital. He has published more than 30 books in literature and humanities, both in printed and digital forms. His recent publication: Perlindungan Hukum Sastra Digital/Legal Protection on Digital Literature (2022).