Isaac Yuen’s short stories and creative nonfiction has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Orion, Shenandoah, Tin House, and other publications. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, he has held writing residencies in Switzerland, Germany, and France. Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World, his debut collection published by West Virginia University Press, is “a celebration, through wordplay and earthplay, of our planet’s riotous wonders.”
Books
Selected work
A Statistically Average Whale
Orion, 2026
SAND 29: Cocoon
SAND Journal, 2026
Duet
PRISM international, 2025
4 Lessons on Breathing from the More-than-Human World
Orion, 2024
A School is a Kind of Shoal
WILDNESS, 2022
Utter, Earth
AGNI, 2021
Second Best is Best
Gulf Coast, 2021
Yes, you can leave the hospital without naming your baby
The Willowherb Review (closed), 2021
The Ecological Imagination of Hayao Miyazaki
Orion, 2021
One Summer, by Iceland
Tiny Molecules, 2020
Last Light
Flash Fiction Magazine, 2020
El Lugar de Los Sueños
The Willowherb Review (closed), 2020
Life Lessons from the Odd and Ancient
The Hopper, 2019
Journeys to HYRULE_
Newfound Journal, 2019
Our Museum of the Future
Shenandoah, 2018
Lodestone
Tahoma Literary Review, 2018
6 Degrees of Interconnection
Orion, 2017
Rhythm
Hippocampus Magazine, 2017
What Matters
River Teeth, 2017
Me and Gravity
Orion, 2016