Yilin is a writer, translator, and editor, whose translations, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry, have appeared in a number of magazines. As someone who thinks of myself primarily as a writer, I first became interested in translation three years ago when I started working on a novel inspired by the tropes of wuxia (martial arts fantasy) fiction in English. As a writer who is bilingual but only writes in English, I often find myself navigating code-switching in similar ways, on the page or in daily life, so I find translating often informs my writing, and vice versa.