April Yee

April Yee’s poetry, fiction and nonfiction have won or been listed for The Best American Essays, Ivan Juritz Prize, Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Manchester Poetry Prize, and Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award.

A Harvard alumna and former journalist, she reported in more than a dozen countries before moving to London, where she has served as a Refugee Journalism Project mentor and The Georgia Review’s editor-in-residence.

Her work has been supported by the National Book Critics Circle, Ledbury Poetry Critics, the Southbank Centre, and the University of East Anglia, where she is a Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholar.