About

Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland, No Tokens, The Believer, the Washington Square Review, and Literary Hub. Her first novel, Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, was a New York Times Notable Book in 2025, won the 2025 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. By day, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night, she writes, usually under the watch of her judgmental rescue dog, Ollie.