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Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Named by The Los Angeles Times as one of the three authors to watch in 2005, her first book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, has won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her other awards include the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review for the short story “Immortality,” and a Pushcart prize. She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons, and teaches in the MFA program at Mills College.