Ann Tashi Slater interviews Yiyun Li

“Grief doesn’t narrow you down, it expands you,” author and Princeton professor Yiyun Li told Ann Tashi Slater '84, in On Grief, Willpower, and Finding Happiness, the latest in Ann’s interview series about bardo and the art of living. In her new story collection, WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, Li explores the landscape of loss, a terrain she herself has navigated since the death of her son. Li is a professor of creative writing and director of Princeton’s Creative Writing Program; her honors and awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. https://tricycle.org/article/yiyun-li/