YZ Chin is the author of Edge Case and Though I Get Home. Edge Case is a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Books We Love pick for 2021. Though I Get Home won the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the Asian/Pacific American Award For Literature honor title.

 

YZ is also a translator of Mahua literature. Her translations into English include works by Li Zi Shu, King Ban Hui, and Teng Kuan Kiat. Her work has been supported by NEA and MacDowell fellowships. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. There are no periods in her name.

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