Alice Evelyn Yang is a Chinese American writer from Norfolk, Virginia based in New York.

Her debut novel, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, is forthcoming in 2026 from William Morrow. Her shorter work is published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Apogee, The Rumpus, and AAWW’s The Margins, among others. She is the recipient of the 2022-23 Jesmyn Ward Prize from MQR.

She spent her junior year at the University of Oxford’s Hertford College studying English Literature. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2020 with a BA in Creative Writing, minoring in Environmental Policy and Culture. In 2022, she completed her MFA in Fiction at Columbia University, where she was awarded the Felipe De Alba Fellowship for excellence in first-year writing and nominated for the Henfield Prize, which recognizes the best work in fiction by a second-year student.

Her work explores themes of environmental racism, immigration, intergenerational trauma, and critical fabulation. She is at work on a second novel.

She is represented by Iwalani Kim at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.