About Yanyi

Yanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space. The recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Poets House, he was a curatorial assistant at the Poetry Project and holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University. From 2016-2021, he was the poetry editor at Foundry. Most recently, he is the recipient of a 2023 Vermont Arts Council Grant and a 2022 Tanne Foundation Award. He gives creative writing advice at his newsletter, The Reading, and teaches poetry at the Warren Wilson MFA program. In 2023, he founded the Asian American Literary Archive.

About The Reading

The Reading is a newsletter focused on creative writing and life by Yanyi. From 2020-2022, it was a weekly (then monthly) creative writing advice column and community focused around real-time writing gatherings. I continue to send newsletters at a “once-in-a-while” cadence. The Reading has been featured variously in WIRED, Poets & Writers, Creative Capital, and Literary Hub, if you want to learn more.

How to send in a question: Comments, the anonymous letter form, or through my Contact page.