Yiming Ma was born in Shanghai and spent a decade working in tech and finance across New York, Toronto, London, and Berlin before becoming a novelist.
He holds an MBA from Stanford, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MFA from Warren Wilson, where he was the Carol Houck Smith Scholar.
His debut novel is a Goodreads Choice Award nominee and Spotify Editors' Pick, featured in the Washington Post and Strait Times.
His writing appears in the New York Times, Guardian, Globe and Mail, and other publications.
His story "Swimmer of Yangtze" won the 2018 Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize.
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