Isaac Yuen’s short stories and creative nonfiction has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Orion, Shenandoah, Tin House, and other publications. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, he has held writing residencies in Switzerland, Germany, and France. Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World, his debut collection published by West Virginia University Press, is “a celebration, through wordplay and earthplay, of our planet’s riotous wonders.”
Selected work
- Fiction
5
- Nonfiction
15
4 Lessons on Breathing from the More-than-Human World
Orion, 2024
Utter, Earth
AGNI, 2021
Second Best is Best
Gulf Coast, 2021
The Ecological Imagination of Hayao Miyazaki
Orion, 2021
El Lugar de Los Sueños
The Willowherb Review (closed), 2020
One Summer, by Iceland
Tiny Molecules, 2020
Our Museum of the Future
Shenandoah, 2018
Regarding Lichen
Tin House, 2017
A School is a Kind of Shoal
WILDNESS, 2022
Last Light
Flash Fiction Magazine, 2020
6 Degrees of Interconnection
Orion, 2017
Me and Gravity
Orion, 2016
Life Lessons from the Odd and Ancient
The Hopper, 2019
Journeys to HYRULE_
Newfound Journal, 2019
Lodestone
Tahoma Literary Review, 2018
Yes, you can leave the hospital without naming your baby
The Willowherb Review (closed), 2021
Journeys to Earthsea: An Ursula K. Le Guin Tribute
Lammergeier, 2019
Rhythm
Hippocampus Magazine, 2017
What Matters
River Teeth, 2017
Shells
Flyway Journal, 2015