Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, translator, musician, and editor who writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese. She is the author of a novel Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023), which was longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence. She has also published five poetry collections including Rain in Plural (Princeton, 2020) and The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016), and fifteen books of translation, including Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm by Yu Xiuhua (Astra House, 2021). Sze-Lorrain's books have been finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and the Best Translated Book Award. As a zheng harpist, she has performed around the world. She lives in Paris.