Born and raised in Beijing, Mengyin Lin is a Chinese writer living in the US. Mandarin is her mother tongue and she writes in English as her second language. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College where she won the Himan Brown Award and a BFA in Film from New York University. Her fiction is published or forthcoming in
swamp pink,
Joyland,
Epiphany,
Fence,
Pleiades, and
Best Debut Short Stories 2023; her nonfiction can be read in
The New York Times and
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is the winner of 2023 swamp pink Fiction Prize, 2023 Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and 2022 Breakout Writers Prize. Her work has been supported by Tin House, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, VCCA, KHN Center for the Arts, Saltonstall Foundation and more. You can find her at
mengyinlin.com 