Yao Yao

Yao Yao was born in Huainan, Anhui, in 1989. She is of Hui ethnicity, graduated from Minzu University of China, and now lives in Beijing. A writer, translator and independent photographer, she is also a signed author on the "ONE" app and has written works including It's Cold, Come Home and Nights of the Insomniac. As a translator, she has worked on foreign literature and classics, including new translations of To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway, as well as Out of Africa, The Motorcycle Diaries, Anne of Green Gables, Find Me and Grace Paley's short-story collections The Collected Stories and The Lonely Stories. Twelve of her works are held in the library, with others touching on medicine and personal growth, such as Bencao Chengya Banji and Xia Min's Gynaecological Experience. Her writing and translation span literary classics, personal narrative and practical life subjects, in a plain and delicate style.