Su-Yee Lin

Artist Statement

As a first-generation Chinese American, my writing draws inspiration from the storytelling of both my cultures as well as the clash of their differing concerns. My work revolves around the themes of environment, mythology, and identity: I think about the ways in which we as humans perceive the world and our own identities. About how habits are defined by background, how people are changed into stereotypes, how there are so many nuances to what it means to belong and to connect. More recently, my concerns have broadened to incorporate nature and ecology and our place in local ecosystems. I’m moved by the ways in which nature constantly surprises us with its creativity, its resilience, but also its fragility.

Work-in-progress for Infinite Islands

Bio

Su-Yee Lin is a writer from New York. Her work has been published in The Offing, Day One, Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, Bennington Review, EVENT, Tor.com, Nashville Review, Quarterly West, khoreo magazine, and other literary journals, and have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and residencies and grants from the Center for Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jentel, Storyknife, Crosstown Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, Seoul Art Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and others. Her writing has been translated into Chinese and Italian. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel.


https://suyeelin.com