Isaac Yuen
A first generation Chinese-Canadian, Isaac Yuen’s short stories and personal essays appear in Flyway, Hippocampus, Orion, River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things,” Tahoma Literary Review, Tin House Online, and other publications. He is the creator of Ekostories, an online essay collection exploring narratives through themes of nature, culture, and identity. Isaac lives in Vancouver, Canada, on unceded Coast Salish territory.
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Our Museum of the Future
Welcome to a museum of words instead of bones. Where sentences take the shapes of skeletons. Where nouns and verbs replace ribs and vertebrae. We believe words can evoke in ways bones cannot. That they are easier for the mind to hold and make come alive. This is the premise behind our museum of the […]
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Isaac Yuen on Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World
In this Q&A, Isaac Yuen discusses the creation of his debut nature essay collection, titled Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World. You can read Yuen’s piece, “Our Museum of the Future,” featured in Volume 68.1 of Shenandoah here. Can you tell me the story of this book: When did you […]