Born and raised in Beijing, Mengyin Lin writes in English as her second language. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and a BFA in Film from New York University. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The New York Times, Guernica, swamp pink, Joyland, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She is the winner of 2023 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest, 2023 swamp pink Fiction Prize, 2023 Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and 2022 Breakout Writers Prize.