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Lin King is a writer and translator from Taipei, Taiwan. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Learn more >

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. More about this book >
Lin King is a writer and translator from Taipei, Taiwan. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations from Mandarin and Japanese into English include Yang Shuang-Zi’s novel Taiwan Travelogue and the historical graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun, illustrated by Zhou Jian-Xin. Lin holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Columbia University, where she has taught undergraduate writing.
