Yu Yoyo

Yu Yoyo is an acclaimed poet and visual/audio artist from Sichuan, China. She started publishing poetry at the age of fourteen, and earned critical attention by the age of sixteen. Her work has featured in various literary journals and anthologies. She has published the poetry collections Seven Years (2012), Me as Bait (2018), wind can't (2019), and Cat is a Cloud (2021). She won the 2017 Henry Luce Translation Fellowship. Her poems have been translated into English, Korean, Russian, French, Japanese, and Swedish. A selection of her poems was translated and published by Poetry Translation Centre in her first English collection, My Tenantless Body (2019). Invisible Kitties is her first novel. She lives in Chengdu.