Yiyun Li is the author of six books, including two story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, three novels, The Vagrants, Kinder Than Solitude, Where Reasons End, and an essay collection, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Li was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2010, and was chosen by The New Yorker as one of the 20 fiction writers under 40 to watch. Awards for Li’s work include: Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, Benjamin H. Dank Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, and many others. She teaches at Princeton University.
Yiyun Li
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Professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University
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