Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction, including Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, as well as the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, a PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham–Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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