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  • Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
    Jessica Zhan Mei Yu is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Best Australian Poems, Overland, Yen, The Sydney Morning Herald, The White ...

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    But the Girl
  • Lidia Yuknavitch
    Lidia Yuknavitch
    Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the ...

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    The Book of Joan

  • Jung Yun
    Jung Yun was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. Her debut novel, Shelter was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble ...

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    O Beautiful
  • Alia Yunis
    Raised in Chicago, Alia Yunis has worked as a journalist and filmmaker in Los Angeles and the Middle East. Currently a professor of communications at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, Yunis is a PEN ...

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    The Night Counter
  • Muhammad Yunus
    Muhammad Yunus
    Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of fourteen children, five of whom died in infancy, he was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright ...

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    Banker to the Poor

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