YZ Chin is the author of Edge Case and Though I Get Home. Edge Case is a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Books We Love pick. Though I Get Home won the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the Asian/Pacific American Award For Literature honor title.
YZ is also a translator of Mahua literature. Her work has been supported by the NEA and MacDowell as well as shortlisted for a PEN Presents x International Booker Prize. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York.