Yi-Ling Liu is a writer & editor covering AI and Chinese society, from a human-centered lens. She is currently a journalist-in-residence at the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. Her book, THE WALL DANCERS: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet, will be published by Knopf, on February 3, 2026.
As a writer, her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, WIRED & The New Yorker on topics ranging from science-fiction novelists to national burnout crises to gay dating apps. As an editor, she launched & lead the China desk at Rest of World as the first China Editor.
She is a New America Fellow, a recipient of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, & an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar. She is represented by Elias Altman at Massie & McQuilkin Literary.