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.”
Selected work
- Fiction
5
- Nonfiction
15

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

Journeys to Earthsea: An Ursula K. Le Guin Tribute
Lammergeier, 2019

Our Museum of the Future
Shenandoah, 2018

Lodestone
Tahoma Literary Review, 2018

Regarding Lichen
Tin House, 2017

6 Degrees of Interconnection
Orion, 2017

Rhythm
Hippocampus Magazine, 2017

What Matters
River Teeth, 2017

Me and Gravity
Orion, 2016

Shells
Flyway Journal, 2015