Born and raised in Beijing, Mengyin Lin is a Chinese writer living in the US. Mandarin is her mother tongue and she writes in English as her second language.
She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she won the Himan Brown Award, and a BFA in Film from New York University.
Her fiction is published or forthcoming in Joyland, Epiphany, Fence, and Pleiades; her nonfiction can be read in The New York Times. She is the winner of the 2023 Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and 2022 Breakout Writers Prize.
Her work has been supported by Tin House, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and Soho House Foundation.