Alice Evelyn Yang

Alice Evelyn Yang is a Chinese American writer from Norfolk, Virginia, and the author of the debut novel A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing (William Morrow, January 2026), a multigenerational family saga that moves between Japanese-occupied Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and modern-day New York. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2020 with a degree in Creative Writing, then completed her MFA in Fiction in 2022 at Columbia University, where she was awarded the Felipe De Alba Fellowship and was nominated for the Henfield Prize. She is the recipient of the 2022–23 Jesmyn Ward Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and her short fiction has appeared in MQR, AAWW's The Margins, and The Rumpus, among other publications. A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing was selected for the American Booksellers Association's Winter/Spring 2026 Indies Introduce program and has drawn praise from authors including Vanessa Chan, Juhea Kim, and Karissa Chen for its lyrical, mythic treatment of generational trauma and inheritance.