Alice Evelyn Yang is a Chinese American writer from Norfolk, Virginia. Her work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, the Asian American Writer's Workshop's The Margins, and The Rumpus, among others. She is the recipient of the 2022 Jesmyn Ward Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review and completed her MFA in Fiction in 2022 at Columbia University, where she was awarded the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship and nominated for the Henfield Prize. A Beast Slink Towards Beijing is her first novel.