Fourth Estate

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and came to the United States in 1996. She is the recipient of several prizes for her writing and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Li’s stories have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City, USA, with her husband and their two sons.

Her most recent collection of short stories Gold Boy Emerald Girl has recently been shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the world’s largest short story award. The collection is available now in hardback or for pre-order in paperback