Isaac Yuen
BIO
Biography

A first-generation Hong Kong-Canadian, Isaac is the co-author of the The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination with Michaela Vieser, published by Reaktion Books. His solo nature essay collection, Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World, was published with West Virginia University Press. The title piece with the same name, published in AGNI, was awarded a Pushcart Prize.

Isaac’s short fiction and creative nonfiction can be found at Gulf Coast, Newfound, Orion, Pleiades, PRISM International, Shenandoah, The Willowherb Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He was a 2019 Jan Michalski Foundation writer-in-residence in Switzerland, a 2023-2024 Fiction Meets Science fellow at the HWK Institute for Advanced Study in Northern Germany, and a 2024 Canadian artist-in-residence at the La Napoule Art Foundation in Southern France. He currently serves as Associate Fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review.

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GENRE
Literary fiction, science writing, travel writing, nature writing
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Year
2024
Title
The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes and Imagination
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2025
LINKS
Links
https://ekostories.com/
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