Yanyi is a writer and critic. He is the author of DREAM OF THE DIVIDED FIELD and THE YEAR OF BLUE WATER, winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, in Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space, and at the New York Public Library, and he has received fellowships from the Asian American Writers' Workshop and Poets House. Currently, he gives creative advice at The Reading and teaches writing at large.