Esther Yi

Esther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 and holds a degree in literature and history from Harvard University. She moved to Berlin, where she worked as an associate editor at the Global Public Policy Institute, and now lives in Leipzig, Germany. Her debut novel, Y/N (2023), about a woman obsessed with a K-pop idol who disappears after retiring, was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.