Yiming Ma author biography, plus links to books by Yiming Ma.

Yiming Ma

Yiming Ma holds an MBA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His stories and essays appear in the New York Times, the Guardian, The Florida Review, Ricepaper, and elsewhere. His story "Swimmer of Yangtze" won the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Short Story Prize. His work has been shortlisted and/or a finalist for the Gulf Coast Prize, Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, LitMag Virginia Woolf Prize, and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He has been awarded grants for residencies and conferences such as the Sewanee Writers' Conference, VQR Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. Born in Shanghai, he now lives between Toronto and Tokyo.

This biography was last updated on 08/12/2025.

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