Shin Yu Pai

Shin Yu Pai is the writer, host, and producer of Ten Thousand Things, as well as the author of 11 books, including most recently Virga (Empty Bowl, 2021). She is currently Civic Poet of Seattle (2023-2024) and the recipient of awards from the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, and The Awesome Foundation. She is a 2022 Artist Trust Fellow and was shortlisted in 2014 for a Stranger Genius Award in Literature. From 2015 to 2017, Shin Yu served as Poet Laureate for The City of Redmond. Her writing has appeared in Atlas Obscura and The New York Times, among numerous other publications across the globe. Shin Yu will publish new books from Empty Bowl Press and Blue Cactus Press in 2023 and from Chronicle Books in 2024.