The Reality of Ghosts
“Why do so many Asians believe in ghosts?” / Two white yokai scholars won’t stop gawking / at us like we’re aliens seen through a telescope. / They bait our deceased ancestors to rise up
Yilin Wang
Yilin Wang (she/they) is a writer, editor, and Chinese-English translator. Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, The Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, carte blanche, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, and elsewhere. She has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, and longlisted for the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. Her translations and essays about translation have appeared or are forthcoming in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, LA Review of Books China Channel, Samovar, Pathlight, and the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (Tor), while her research on martial arts fiction has featured on various podcasts. Yilin has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is a member of the Clarion West Writers Workshop 2020/2021. She is currently at work on her first short story collection. Find her online: www.yilinwang.com / @yilinwriter.