Yilin Wang is a writer, poet and Chinese-English translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her debut book is The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets (Invisible Publishing, 2024), an anthology of translated poetry and original essays on translation . Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, The Malahat Review, CV2, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her translations have also appeared in Asymptote, Room, Canthius, Living Hyphen, Samovar, The Common and other publications and in the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom, 2022). She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of Canada’s National Magazine Award, been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize and been a finalist for the Aurora Award. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is a graduate of the 2021 Clarion West Writers Workshop. 9781778430381

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