YZ Chin

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YZ Chin is a Malaysian-born writer living in the United States. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Chin is a former software engineer. [3] She graduated from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University in 2007, where she also studied creative writing. [4]

Career

Chin's first book was a volume of stories titled Though I Get Home released in 2018. [1] [5] It received the Feminist Press and TAYO Literary Magazine Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. [4] [6]

Her first novel was Edge Case published in 2021. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] In the Washington Post, Jung Yun wrote that the novel's depiction of foreign workers in the New York City tech industry "shines brightest [in] its depiction of characters who live in a liminal space." [12] In The New York Times , Lauren Oyler wrote that the book is "not only a subtly provocative depiction of the tech industry, and this country, as tilting ever more off-kilter; but also a realistic portrayal of a woman in crisis." [13] TheNew York Times named it an "Editors' Choice." [14]

Chin was a 2023 MacDowell Fellow in Literature. [15]

References

  1. 1 2 Tan, Stephanie (15 December 2021). "YZ Chin, Though I Get Home". SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English. 58 (2): 209–211. doi: 10.22452/sare.vol58no2.15 . ISSN   0127-046X . Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "About". yzchin.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2025. Retrieved 11 June 2025. There are no periods in her name.
  3. ↑ Schaub, Michael (10 August 2021). "All The Moving Parts Fit Together In This Smart, Emotional Debut Novel". NPR. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  4. 1 2 Dylan, Jonah (20 April 2018). "Northwestern alumna YZ Chin releases 'Though I Get Home'". Daily Northwestern. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Though I Get Home". Kirkus Reviews. 23 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Higgins, Molly (9 April 2018). "Book Review: "Though I Get Home"". APALA. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  7. ↑ "Edge Case by YZ Chin". www.publishersweekly.com. 2021.
  8. ↑ "Edge Case". Kirkus Reviews. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  9. ↑ Mundow, Anna (22 July 2021). "'Edge Case' Review: The Husband Vanishes". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  10. ↑ Renfro, Yelizaveta. "Edge Case: A Novel". Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  11. ↑ McKanic, Arlene (August 2021). "Edge Case". BookPage. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  12. ↑ Yun, Jung (6 September 2021). "'Edge Case' begins with a husband's disappearance and turns into much more". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  13. ↑ Oyler, Lauren (2 August 2021). "Start-Ups Are Not Great for Marriages". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  14. ↑ Cowles, Gregory (19 August 2021). "10 New Books We Recommend This Week". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  15. ↑ "YZ Chin - MacDowell Fellow in Literature". MacDowell. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
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