Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, translator, editor, and musician. She writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese. She is the author of a novel in stories Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023), five poetry collections, most recently Rain in Plural (Princeton, 2020) and The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016), and eighteen translations. A judge for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, a 2019–20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, she has performed widely as a zheng harpist.