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“Neither science fiction, myth, nor magical realism, but some amalgamation of it all, this collection offers fugitive possibilities against the hauntings of our historical moment.”

Yanyi, Dream of the Divided Field

“A startling debut with evocative haunting tales that evoke Angela Carter, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Carmen Maria Machado; I devoured this book in one sitting.”

Karen Cheung, Impossible City

Bio

Ysabelle Cheung is a writer and editor based in Hong Kong.

Her fiction writing has appeared in Granta, Catapult, Slate, and the Rumpus. Her short story ‘Please, Get Out and Dance,’ published in The Margins (AAWW), was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. She was awarded the 2023 Diverse Writers Grant by Speculative Literature Foundation; the 2023 Aspen Words fellowship; and the 2021 Nebula Awards SFWA conference scholarship. She is an alumni of Tin House Workshop and was in residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation in 2024.

Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Artforum, and Lithub, among others. She is co-founder of the contemporary art gallery Property Holdings Development Group.

She is represented by Jade Wong-Baxter at Frances Goldin Literary Agency.