About Yichen Shi-Naseer
Yichen Shi-Naseer earned her master's in mathematics from Cambridge University and PhD in black-hole physics from Harvard University. She has lived in eight countries and traveled to 70+, and she is fluent in seven languages. It is her goal to bridge people around the world by telling stories from different cultures. She currently lives in Uppsala, Sweden, and is working on two novels, both literary fiction with thriller elements. Her first novel portrays the effects of the one-child policy across rural and urban China, exploring themes of vengeance and atonement. Her second novel, mostly set in Pakistan, examines how women are expected to live in different parts of today's world. Visit her at https://scholar.harvard.edu/yshi
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