K-Yu Liu is a writer and translator from Beijing. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Common, Four Way Review, and more. She holds a dual-certificate MFA in fiction writing and literary translation from Columbia University, where she taught undergraduate creative writing.
She is at work on a collection of short stories.
Fiction
“My Five-Thousand-Meter Years” — The Common
“Harbor” — Gulf Coast, Issue 34.1
“Love and Leaving in the Conditional” — Four Way Review, Issue 21
Other
“Memory City, Eternal Spring: The Nostalgia of Revisiting Huan Zhu Ge Ge” — FAR–NEAR
Decline/Accept Feature — Carve Magazine, Summer 2023 Issue
Translating the Translation: An Interview with Mike Fu — Columbia Journal
Translation
Rights of Returning 《神之鄉》by Zuo Hsuan 左宣 | Co-translation with Kevin K. Wang (pitching)
Awards & Recognition
Tin House Summer Workshop 2025
“The Clockwork Girls” — Finalist, Narrative Magazine Fall 2023 Short Story Contest
Say hi at liu.y.kimberly@gmail.com