Yi-Ling Liu is a writer & editor covering Chinese society, technology & culture. She is working on a narrative non-fiction book on the Chinese internet, to be published by Penguin Press.
As a writer, her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, WIRED & The New Yorker on topics ranging from science-fiction novelists to national burnout crises to gay dating apps.
As an editor, she launched & lead the China desk at Rest of World as the first China Editor, and helped edit Chaoyang Trap, a collaborative newsletter exploring daily life & culture on the Chinese internet.
She is a New America Fellow, a recipient of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, & an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar. She is represented by Elias Altman at Massie & McQuilkin Literary.