Author Bio
• Birth—1972
• Raised—Beijing, China;
• Education—B.S. Peking University; M.F.A., University of
Iowa; M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Awards—Whiting Writers' Award; Frank O'Connor Int'l. Short
Story Award; PEN/Hemingway Award
• Currently—lives in Oakland, California, USA
Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. She was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. She is an editor of Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and moved to the United States after she got B.S. from Peking University in 1996. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Two of the stories from A Thousand Years of Good Prayers were adapted into films: The Princess of Nebraska and the title story, which Li adapted herself. (From Wikipedia.)