A woman with short dark hair and glasses smiles while standing outdoors. She is wearing a white patterned top, and the background is blurred, showing an urban street scene.

Da-Lin

2020 Emerging Voices Fellow

Da-Lin grew up in Taiwan, received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, and went on to get her master’s from Columbia Business School. The winner of the 2018 James Kirkwood Literary Prize, Da-Lin is currently working on a collection of magical realism stories about people transcending grief and mortality.


Articles by Da-Lin

A woman with short dark hair and glasses smiles at the camera. She is wearing a white top and a textured coral jacket with orange trim, standing indoors with a dark, blurred background, holding "tiger heads all the way down by Claire Lin.
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Wednesday September 2

Tiger Heads All the Way Down

“I may not know how to finish but I do know how to start. If I start again and again, maybe my story will be tiger heads all the way down.”