Yiyun Li is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, Things in Nature Merely Grow. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, an International Writer Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Li is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
