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Yiming Ma

Ontario/US/China

YIMING MA grew up in Toronto and spent a decade across New York, London, Berlin, and South Africa. He went to Stanford and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was a Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His work has appeared in the New York TimesThe Guardian, Literary Hub and elsewhere. His story Swimmer of Yangtze won the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize.