Yiming Ma

YIMING MA grew up in Toronto and spent a decade in the tech and finance world across New York, London, Berlin, and South Africa before writing the dystopian novel These Memories Do Not Belong to Us , set in a world where memories are bought and sold. He attended Stanford for his MBA and also holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was named the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times , The Guardian , Literary Hub, Hazlitt, and The Florida...See more

YIMING MA grew up in Toronto and spent a decade in the tech and finance world across New York, London, Berlin, and South Africa before writing the dystopian novel These Memories Do Not Belong to Us , set in a world where memories are bought and sold. He attended Stanford for his MBA and also holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was named the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times , The Guardian , Literary Hub, Hazlitt, and The Florida Review , and elsewhere. His story "Swimmer of Yangtze" won the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize. Born in Shanghai, he now divides his time between Toronto and Seattle. Visit him at ... See less