Geling Yan is one of the most acclaimed contemporary novelists and screenwriters writing in the Chinese language today. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), starting at age twelve as a dancer in an entertainment troupe. She is the author of numerous novels, short stories, novellas, essays, and scripts. Yan is fluent in English and her best-known novels in the West are
The Banquet Bug (published in the UK as
The Uninvited) and
The Lost Daughter of Happiness (translated by Cathy Silber), as well as the novella and short story collection
White Snake and Other Stories (translated by Lawrence A. Walker). She lives in Berlin, Germany.
Angela Lin, an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA degree in drama. A critically acclaimed actress, her credits include The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU, and As the World Turns, among others.