Short Publications and Awards

Short Fiction 

“Fault Lines” (The Malahat Review, Fall 2019 Issue). 

Opening line: Dai Ying and the “boyfriend” she rented for four-hundred yuan per day lingered near the entrance of an ancient quadrangle courtyard in Yibin, where her grandma, Poh-Poh, still lived.

• • Reprinted in The Spirits Have Nothing To Do With Us (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023).
  • Nominated by The Malahat Review for the National Magazine Award and Journey Prize. 
  • Longlisted, Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, The New Quarterly, 2018.
  • Second place, Spark Literary Award, Aug 2018.

“Sparrow.” Clarkesworld. Oct 2018 Issue.

Opening line: The rooftop is quiet except for the hum of a plane passing overhead, heading to a faraway elsewhere.

Reviewed by Realms & Robots, Quick Sip Reviews, and SFRevu. 

• • Reprinted in The Mithila Review (Issue 13, 2020). 
  • Reprinted in Sequestrum (2020), Runner-up for Editor’s Reprint Award 
  • Reprinted in Kasma SF (Sept 2019 Issue), named Kasma’s “story of the year”.
  • Nebula Awards Suggested Reading List (2018).
  • Finalist, Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction (The Malahat Review, 2017).

Poems

• “A Glossary for Moving Overseas” (Wasafiri, Issue 117, Spring 2024).
• “Moving, Again” (CV2, July 2022). 
• “A Sichuan Diaspora Daughter’s Kitchen” (The Ex-Puritan, Feb 2022). 
• “The Reality of Ghosts” (Fantasy Magazine, Aug 2021).
  
  • Finalist for the Aurora Award
  • Nominated for a Rhysling Award
  • Listed in Into the Night: August 2021’s Best Horror Fiction and Poetry (Tor Nightfire)
• “Where are you and your fish really from?” (Arc Poetry Magazine, Summer 2019 Issue).
• “International Exchange” (Grain, Summer 2018 Issue).
• “Absent” (Contemporary Verse 2, Summer 2018 Issue).
• “an incomplete elegy” (LooseLeaf Magazine, Vol. 3, 2017).
• “Straw Man” (Abyss & Apex, 2017).

Essays and Articles

• “Faded Poems and Intimate Conversations” (The League of Canadian Poets’ National Poetry Month Blog Series “On Intimacy”, 2022).
• “What Speculative Fiction Writers Can Learn From the Origins and Evolution of the Wuxia Genre.” (SFWA Bulletin, 2021). 
• “Barriers, Privileges, and Invisible Labor: A Sino Diaspora Translator’s Perspective” (Words WIthout Borders, 2021). 
  • Featured in Lit Hub Weekly: The Best of the Literary Internet 
• “A Xiákè in Jiānghú: Wǔxiá Fiction, Translations, and #RacismInCanLit” (carte blanche, 2019).
  
• “What I learned from Wayson Choy and The Jade Peony” (The Toronto Star, 2019).
• “Finn Slough: An Off-Grid Urban Wilderness on the Fraser River” (The Tyee, 2015).

Translations

Poetry

• “lace edgings” (蕾丝边 by Tanya Chien) (Hungry Zine, 2023). 
• “the infinite possibilities of trees” (小西) (Prism International, 2023).
• “the hand raised with the whip would not stop” (Room Magazine, 2022).
• “Soliloquy” (独白 by Zhang Qiaohui 张巧慧) (The Common, 2022).
• “the wind would not stop” (风不止 by Xiao Xi 小西) (Guernica, 2022).
• 2 poems translated from the Chinese (Poetry Magazine, 2022).
• “lantern” (灯 by Fei Ming 废名) (The Ex-Puritan, 2021).
• 5 poems by Qiu Jin (Asymptote Magazine, 2021).
  
  • Reprinted in NüVoices.
• 3 poems by Qiu Jin (LA Review of Books China Channel, 2021).
• “Night Moths” (the poem 夜蛾 by Da Wangshu 戴望舒) (Samovar, 2020).

Fiction

• “Moonlight Lament” (明月怆 by Han Yu 寒郁) (Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, Forthcoming.)
• Co-translator, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manga vol.1 (under the pen name Liu Ye) (2023).
  • Please note I am boycotting all work published by Seven Seas because they completely rewrote my translation and do not recommend the translation. 
• Translated 2 stories and wrote an essay for the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom, March 2022).

Interviews 

• “On Poetic Origins, Creative Space, and Writing Across Genres: An Interview with Gillian Sze” (The Ex-Puritan, 2022). 
• “Transmitting the Strange: A Conversation with Lydia Kwa,” (Augur Magazine, 2020).
• “Ghosts and Fox Spirits: Janie Chang on the Power of Speculative Fiction,” (Room Magazine’s Magic Issue, 2019).
• “Anna Holmwood” (Nineteen Questions, 2018).

Programs

• Clarion West Writers Workshop 2020/2021.
• MFA in Creative Writing (The University of British Columbia, 2016-2020).
• BFA in Creative Writing (The University of British Columbia. 2010-2015).
  • Mentee, UBC Arts Tri-Mentoring program, mentored by Vancouver Sun’s editor Valerie Casseleton.

Awards & Honors

• Winner, Dwarf Stars Award, Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, 2024. 
• Finalist, Canada’s National Magazine Awards (Poetry), 2023.
• Finalist, Aurora Award (Poetry), 2023.
• Winner, Foster Poetry Prize, Contemporary Verse 2 (2022). 
• American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Virtual Travel Fellowship (2021). 
• Finalist, Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, The Malahat Review (2021).
• Longlist, CBC Poetry Prize (2020). 
• Nominated for the poetry category of the Best of the Net (2019).
• Shortlist, The University of East Anglia’s David TK Wong Fellowship (2019).
• 3rd place, Federation of BC Writer’s Creative Non-fiction contest (2016).

Grants

• Yilin gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, and the Access Copyright Foundation.