Yi Jiang is a writer from Shanghai and Wisconsin.

She is a 2026-2028 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Fiction from Vanderbilt University, where she was a Russell G. Hamilton scholar. Her work has received financial support from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is currently finishing a debut novel and collection of short stories.

Prior to a career shift, she worked as a systems engineer in healthcare technology. In her spare time, she also writes for film, including a short film in French and a feature in progress.

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