Yiyun Li is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the most recent, Things in Nature Merely Grow, which won the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal and was a finalist for National Book Award and PEN/Jean Stein award. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, PEN/Jean Stein Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, an International Writer Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Li is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
