Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction 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 The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin (Levine Querido), the chapbook Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang Li-Chun (Strangers Press), and the novel Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi (Graywolf Press), which won the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature. Forthcoming publications include A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven by Lee Chia-Ying (Doubleday UK, Riverhead US).

Lin King’s appearance is supported by the Taipei Cultural Centre.

Credit Annette An Jen Liu