Yiming Ma

Born in Shanghai, YIMING MA spent a decade in the tech and finance world across New York, Toronto, London, Berlin, and South Africa before writing the dystopian novel These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, set in a world where memories are bought and sold.He attended Stanford for his MBA and also holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was named the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. His story “Swimmer of Yangtze” won the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize. He’s a first-generation immigrant and, despite his travels, he’s still figuring out where home is.