Y. Z. Chin
Early life and education
Chin is a former software engineer.{{cite news |last1=Schaub |first1=Michael |title=All The Moving Parts Fit Together In This Smart, Emotional Debut Novel |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026371106/all-the-moving-parts-fit-together-in-this-smart-emotional-debut-novel |access-date=22 April 2023 |agency=NPR |date=10 August 2021}} She graduated from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University in 2007, where she also studied creative writing.
Career
Chin's first book was a volume of stories titled Though I Get Home released in 2018.{{cite journal |last1=Tan |first1=Stephanie |title=YZ Chin, Though I Get Home |journal=SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English |date=15 December 2021 |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=209–211 |doi=10.22452/sare.vol58no2.15 |url=https://sare.um.edu.my/index.php/SARE/article/view/33800/13937 |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=en |issn=0127-046X|doi-access=free }}{{cite news |title=Though I Get Home |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/yz-chin/though-i-get-home/ |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=23 January 2018 |language=en}} It received the Feminist Press and TAYO Literary Magazine Louise Meriwether First Book Prize.{{cite news |last1=Dylan |first1=Jonah |title=Northwestern alumna YZ Chin releases ‘Though I Get Home’ |url=https://dailynorthwestern.com/2018/04/20/lateststories/northwestern-alumna-yz-chin-releases-though-i-get-home/ |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=Daily Northwestern |date=20 April 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Higgins |first1=Molly |title=Book Review: "Though I Get Home" |url=https://www.apalaweb.org/book-review-though-i-get-home/ |website=APALA |access-date=22 April 2023 |date=9 April 2018}}
Her first novel was Edge Case published in 2021.{{cite news |title=Edge Case by YZ Chin |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-063-03068-8 |work=www.publishersweekly.com |date=2021}}{{cite news |title=Edge Case |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/yz-chin/edge-case/ |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=16 June 2021 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Mundow |first1=Anna |title=‘Edge Case’ Review: The Husband Vanishes |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/edge-case-review-the-husband-vanishes-11626960514 |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=22 July 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Renfro |first1=Yelizaveta |title=Edge Case: A Novel |url=https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/edge-case-a-novel |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=Washington Independent Review of Books}}{{cite news |last1=McKanic |first1=Arlene |title=Edge Case |url=https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/26468-yz-chin-edge-case-fiction/#.YRFqFYhKiUl |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=BookPage |date=August 2021}} In the Washington Post, Jung Yun wrote that the novel's depiction of foreign workers in the New York City tech industry "shines brightest [in] its depiction of characters who live in a liminal space."{{cite news |last1=Yun |first1=Jung |title=‘Edge Case’ begins with a husband’s disappearance and turns into much more |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/edge-case-begins-with-a-husbands-disappearance-and-turns-into-much-more/2021/09/03/102dba44-eef6-11eb-81d2-ffae0f931b8f_story.html |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=Washington Post |date=6 September 2021}} In The New York Times, Lauren Oyler wrote that the book is "not only a subtly provocative depiction of the tech industry, and this country, as tilting ever more off-kilter; but also a realistic portrayal of a woman in crisis."{{cite news |last1=Oyler |first1=Lauren |title=Start-Ups Are Not Great for Marriages |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/books/review/startup-wife-tahmima-anam-edge-case-yz-chin.html |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=2 August 2021}} The New York Times named it an "Editors' Choice."{{cite news |last1=Cowles |first1=Gregory |title=10 New Books We Recommend This Week |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/books/review/10-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=19 August 2021}}
Chin was a 2023 MacDowell Fellow in Literature.{{cite web |title=YZ Chin - MacDowell Fellow in Literature |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/yz-chin |website=MacDowell |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=en}}