Iris Y
she/they | writer, photographer, teacher | Taipei, Taiwan
yating decapped their name protesting its romanization from Taiwanese—characters stripped meaning, leaving just phonetics, another yellow face. Writing in English, their third language, yating's work appeared in Fahmidan Journal, ANMLY, and was selected as second runner-up for the 2025 Margarita Donnelly Prize. They write from Taipei.
Selected work
The Mouthless Hello Kitty
Soon
Packingtown Review
A Modern Ghost Story
SECRETS: Hammond House International Literary Prize 2026 Anthology, 2026
MD Prize 2025 Runner-Up: A Modern Ghost Story
CALYX, 2025
On Earth We’re Briefly Polite
ANMLY, 2025
Click-Pah!
BULL lit mag, 2025
Milktea Carton
Fahmidan Journal, 2025
Taiwan Police Promote Beauty Surgery as World Cracks Down
New Bloom Magazine, 2025
Maki Means Roll
Across the Margin, 2025
Step 895
The Quarter(ly), 2025
What's on the Menu?
The Bitchin’ Kitsch, 2025
Save Them Bears
Skipping Stones, 2025