Yiyun Li

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YIYUN LI is the author of eleven books, including Wednesday's Child, The Book of Goose, and Where Reasons End. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Li's honors and awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation Story Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the PEN/Malamud Awards, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and others. She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences International Writer from the Royal Society of Literature. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, and other places. She is a professor at Princeton University, where she directs the creative writing program.

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