Yang's story collection, The Runaway Restaurant, was published by 7.13 Books in 2022. Her stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Cincinnati Review, Foglifter, and elsewhere, and her flash fiction has been featured in Best Small Fictions 2024, Flash Fiction America, and Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2018 and 2019.
Her debut novel is The Jellyfish Problem.
[Q&A with Tessa Yang]
At People magazine Yang tagged nine favorite sea creature books, including:
Read about another title on the list.Sea Change by Gina Chung
Allow us to fully celebrate the cultural ascendance of the octopus! Sea Change by Gina Chung is one of several fabulous octopus reads to come out in the last few years. The novel’s protagonist, Ro, is an isolated Korean-American woman working a menial job at an aquarium. A giant Pacific octopus named Dolores serves as a final link to Ro’s marine biologist father, who disappeared when Ro was a child. Sea Change reads as an intimate character study, one that circumvents familiar narratives of Asian intergenerational trauma in favor of a more complicated reckoning.
Sea Change is among Julia Phillips's top ten books about women colliding with wild creatures.
--Marshal Zeringue
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