YZ Chin
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Early life and education
Chin is a former software engineer.[3] She graduated from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University in 2007, where she also studied creative writing.[4]
Career
Chin's first book was a volume of stories titled Though I Get Home released in 2018.[1][5] It received the Feminist Press and TAYO Literary Magazine Louise Meriwether First Book Prize.[4][6]
Her first novel was Edge Case published in 2021.[7][8][9][10][11] In the Washington Post, Jung Yun wrote that the novel's depiction of foreign workers in the New York City tech industry "shines brightest [in] its depiction of characters who live in a liminal space."[12] In The New York Times, Lauren Oyler wrote that the book is "not only a subtly provocative depiction of the tech industry, and this country, as tilting ever more off-kilter; but also a realistic portrayal of a woman in crisis."[13] The New York Times named it an "Editors' Choice."[14]
Chin was a 2023 MacDowell Fellow in Literature.[15]