Dorothy Tse (Author)
Dorothy Tse is one of Hong Kong's most celebrated and award-winning
writers whose stories have been widely published in English. She is
the author of four short-story collections in Chinese, including So
Black (2003, 2005) and Ghost in the Umbrella (2020), and has
garnered attention in English since the 2014 publication of her
collection Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky Harman; longlisted
for 2015 Best Translated Book Award).
Dorothy has been granted residencies at Art Omi, The Leeds Centre
for New Chinese Writing, University of Iowa's International Writing
Program and Vermont Studio Center and with translator Natascha
Bruce, Tse was a winner of the 2019 Words Without Borders Poems in
Translation Prize. She currently lives in Hong Kong, where she
teaches creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Owlish is her first novel.
Natascha Bruce (Translator)
Natascha Bruce translates fiction from Chinese. Her work includes
novels and story collections by Yeng Pway Ngon, Patig l, Ho Sok
Fong, and Can Xue. Her translation of Owlish by Dorothy Tse
received a 2021 PEN/Heim grant. She lives in Amsterdam.
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