Mengyin Lin
about
Mengyin Lin is a Chinese writer living in the US. Born and raised in Beijing, she writes in English as her second language; her mother tongue is Mandarin, which she favors in speech. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and a BFA in Film from New York University.
Her short story collection, The Memory Museum, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press, including stories that have appeared in Ploughshares, swamp pink, Joyland, Epiphany, Fence, and Best Debut Short Stories 2023 (Catapult). Her nonfiction can be read in The New York Times, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Mengyin goes by M. She is also a certified yoga teacher and lives with her partner and two furry children, Lisbon and Rothko.
fiction
野火烧不尽 / no prairie fire can destroy all the weeds, Ploughshares
LUCY, Fence
You Don’t Read This In The News, Joyland
Magic, or Something Less Assuring, Epiphany, anthologized in Best Debut Short Stories 2023
nonfiction
My Chinese Generation Is Losing the Ability to Express Itself, The New York Times
Just Another Day series, Cha: an Asian Literary Journal
artist interview: Josh Kline, Guernica
author interview: Yiyun Li, The Millions
author interview: C Pam Zhang, The Rumpus
press
Catching Up With 2023 Fiction Prize Winner Mengyin Lin, swamp pink
Best Debut Short Stories 2023 roundtable, Debutiful
2023 Pen/J. Dau Prize Winner Interview, PEN America
An Interview with Mengyin Lin, Epiphany
awards
fiction winner, 2023 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest, judged by Gish Jen
2023 swamp pink Fiction Prize, judged by Jamil Jai Kochai
2023 Pen / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Himan Brown Award, Brooklyn College
2022 Breakout Writers Prize, judged by Nadia Owusu
longlist, 2023 Granum Foundation Prize
fellowships / conferences
Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award, 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
2023 Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
2023 Fellow, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
2023 Fellow, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
2022 Tin House Summer Workshop
Fellow, Soho House Foundation
teaching
Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop
contact
you can reach M at m [at] mengyinlin [dot] com (欢迎中文来信)
you can reach M’s literary agent, Meredith Kaffel Simonoff, at msimonoff [at] thegernertco [dot] com
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