YZ Chin

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 translation of Smalltown Godzilla by Teng Kuan Kiat is forthcoming in January 2027. Her work has been supported by the National Endowments for the Arts and MacDowell as well as short-listed for a PEN Presents x International Booker Prize. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she lives in New York.