Ysabelle Cheung's fiction, including stories from this collection, has appeared in or is forthcoming from Granta, The Rumpus, Joyland, and Slate. The story "Please, Get Out and Dance," published in The Margins (Asian American Writers Workshop), was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Artforum, and Lithub, among others. She holds a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She lives in Hong Kong.