My debut book of poetry translations and essays on translation, The Lantern and the Night Moths, is out now from Invisible Publishing and available for purchasing.
Yilin Wang (she/they) is a Chinese diaspora writer, poet, Chinese-English translator, and editor who lives on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (known colonially as Vancouver, Canada).
Her debut collection of translated poetry and essays on translation, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024), has been described by reviewers as “exceptional” (Quill & Quire, starred review), “stunning” (Book Riot), a “gift” and “labor of love” (The Miramichi Reader), and “careful work and keen commentary” (Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation).
Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Words Without Borders, The Malahat Review, CV2, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, and elsewhere. Her translations have also appeared in Asymptote, Guernica, POETRY, Room, Canthius, Samovar, The Common, and in the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom 2022).
She has won SFPA’s Dwarf Stars Award and CV2’s Foster Poetry Prize, as well as been a finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Award in poetry, been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and been a finalist for the Aurora Award. She was a co-editor-in-chief for Tales & Feathers, an editor for Room Magazine, and won a Hugo Award as a member of the Strange Horizons editorial collective, where she was a guest editor for the Wuxia and Xianxia special issue. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is a graduate of the 2021 Clarion West Writers Workshop.
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