Kao Yi-feng (; born 10 September 1973) is a Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter and director. His work includes references to Hakka language and Hakka culture.
Kao Yi-feng was born in Miaoli County. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a dancer, a bartender, and as the editor of a fashion magazine. He studied law at university.
His first short story was published in 2002, and in 2003 Kao and seven other authors formed a group called "Novelist Reader", which aimed to promote contemporary literature by stunts like writing on bookshop windows and printing novels on fast food tray paper.
Kao's first novel, Phantom Asylum, came out in 2012. His second book, War of the Bubbles, followed in 2014. It was translated into French in 2017.
In 2016, Kao and the manga artist Ke You-xi attended the Frankfurt Book Fair as part of the Taiwanese delegation.
In 2012, Unitas Publishing Company named Kao one of the 20 most-anticipated Chinese novelists under 40. He has also won the Wu Chuo-liu Literary Prize and Lin Rung-san Literary Prize.