Lin King Author & Translator

Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review and Joyland, among other publications, and has received the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Translations include The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin (Levine Querido) and Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi (And Other Stories), which won the International Booker Prize 2026 and received the 2024 National Book Award in Translated Literature. Forthcoming translations include A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven by Lee Chia-Ying (Doubleday).