Lin King

Lin King is a writer and translator from Taipei, Taiwan. Her writing has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations from Mandarin and Japanese into English include Yang Shuang-Zi's novel Taiwan Travelogue (Graywolf, forthcoming 2024) and the historical graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater (Levine Querido, 2023-2024) by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin. Lin holds degrees from...See more

Lin King is a writer and translator from Taipei, Taiwan. Her writing has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, and Joyland, among others, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations from Mandarin and Japanese into English include Yang Shuang-Zi's novel Taiwan Travelogue (Graywolf, forthcoming 2024) and the historical graphic novel series The Boy from Clearwater (Levine Querido, 2023-2024) by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin. Lin holds degrees from Princeton University and Columbia University, where she has taught undergraduate writing. See less