Yiyun Li is a Chinese-born writer who writes exclusively in English. Her work spans short stories and novels, and she has received significant recognition from major literary institutions. Li's debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won both the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Guardian First Book Award. Her novel Where Reasons End received the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. More recently, her novel The Book of Goose won the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her short story collection Wednesday's Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Beyond her own writing, Li serves as an editor of A Public Space, a Brooklyn-based literary magazine.