Xueyi Zhou was born and raised in Foshan, a city of manufacturing in Guangdong, China. After earning a BA in translation and interpreting in Shanghai, she returned home and worked at a stainless-steel company. English writing pulled her out again and dropped her into the US deserts, where she is currently pursuing her MFA at UNLV. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, Waxwing, Passages North, Chestnut Review, Tahoma Literary Review, AAWW’s The Margins, and more. She tweets @xueyizhou.