Dr. Chihmei Lin Chen 林智美 was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She graduated from National Taiwan University and earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the City University of New York. She is now a professor emerita, after having taught college level psychology in the United States for over 30 years. She also served as the first female president of the North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association 北美洲台灣人教授協會.

She co-translated（with 張良澤）the book "A Prism of Life’’ (人生的三稜鏡)，which was written by her mother Yang Chian-Ho 楊千鶴 in Japanese in 1993. Dr. Chen also translated her mother’s 1942 short story (花咲く季節) into Chinese (花開時節) in 1999. In 2023, she published a book with a four-language translation of the short story "The Season When Flowers Bloom" (花開時節—四語文新版), which includes a new English translation (co-translated by her daughter, Katherine Chen Jenkins, JD) and a new Taiwanese translation, in addition to the Japanese version and the Chinese translation.