I am a writer and translator from Beijing. My fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Common, Four Way Review, and more. I hold a dual-certificate MFA in fiction writing and literary translation from Columbia University, where I taught undergraduate creative writing. My translation of Mo Yan’s novella The Torch and the Whistler is forthcoming with Swift Press in March 2027.

Fiction

“My Five-Thousand-Meter Years”The Common

“Harbor”Gulf Coast, Issue 34.1

“Love and Leaving in the Conditional” Four Way Review, Issue 21

I, Iris” Berkeley Fiction Review, Issue 41

Other

Translation

The Torch and the Whistler by Mo Yan (forthcoming March 2027 with Swift Press)

Rights of Returning 《神之鄉》by Zuo Hsuan 左宣 | Co-translation with Kevin K. Wang (pitching)

Awards & Recognition

Tin House Summer Workshop 2025

“The Clockwork Girls” — Finalist, Narrative Magazine Fall 2023 Short Story Contest

Say hi at liu.y.kimberly@gmail.com