Lost (and Found) in Translation

Tri-Cities Writers Festival

Hear from Yilin Wang, a writer, poet, and Chinese-English translator, during this in-person author talk at the Tri-Cities Writers Festival.

The author talk will be followed by a Q&A period.

No registration required, just drop-in.

The Tri-Cities Writers Festival acknowledges the funding support of the League of Canadian Poets and Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information about this Tri-Cities Writers Festival event, email ask@coqlibrary.ca. 

YILIN WANG (she/they) is a Chinese diaspora writer, poet, and Chinese-English translator. Her debut book The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024) is the first book of translations from Chinese and from any Asian language to win the John Glassco Translation Prize from the Literary Translators Association of Canada in the 40 year history of the prize. Her writing and translations have appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Room, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, Words Without Borders, The Tyee, the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom 2022), and elsewhere. She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, the Dwarf Stars Award, and the ALTA Travel Fellowship, and been a finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Award, the CBC Poetry Prize, and the Aurora Award. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

Find out more at www.yilinwang.com 

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