Born in Shanghai, YIMING MA is the debut author of These Memories Do Not Belong to Us: A Constellation Novel (Mariner Books). He holds an MBA from Stanford University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. Ma spent a decade in the tech and finance world working in New York, Toronto, London, and South Africa before writing his first book. His stories and essays appear in The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere. His story Swimmer of Yangtze won the 2018 The Guardian and 4th Estate Short Story Prize.