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YZ Chin

YZ Chin’s debut book of fiction Though I Get Home is a Louise Meriwether First Book Prize winner, and an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature honor title. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York.

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Translating the Lives of Slackers Drifting on the Margins of Beijing

Aug 29 - YZ Chin

The Surreal Stories of “Lake Like a Mirror” Show How Power Distorts Reality

Apr 28 - YZ Chin

The Memoir of a Political Prisoner Who Never Stopped Imagining a Better World

Nov 11 - YZ Chin
Klang, Malaysia

Why Aren’t White Writers Asked About Authenticity?

Sep 9 - YZ Chin

People With My Kind of Upbringing Were Not Destined to Be Writers

Sep 3 - YZ Chin
Alaska

In “The Unpassing,” a Taiwanese Family Grieves in the Harsh Wilderness of Rural Alaska

May 2 - YZ Chin

Imprisoned in Egypt for His Writing, Ahmed Naji is Finally Free

Sep 6 - YZ Chin

Writing Behind My Country’s Back

Apr 13 - YZ Chin

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