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Joshua Dyer is a Chinese-to-English literary translator and editor-in-chief at Books from Taiwan. His translations of short stories have appeared in St. Petersburg Review, Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, Taiwan Literature English Translation Series, and The Margins. His full-length translations include Tsering Norbu’s Prayers in the Wind (China Translation & Publishing House, 2021), Andrew Yeh’s Green Monkey Syndrome (Blackstone, 2022), and Ma Yansong’s architectural manifesto Shanshui City (Lars Müller, 2016). His co-translation of the collaborative mystery/horror novel Chopsticks is forthcoming from Harvill Secker. Joshua holds an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and currently resides in the Transcarpathian city of Uzhhorod, Ukraine.

Current projects seeking publishers:

Port of Lies by Freddie Tang 《八尺門的辯護人》唐福睿, a pacey and politically aware courtroom thriller from Taiwan, full English manuscript available

The Emperor's Lychees by Ma Boyong《长安的荔枝》马伯庸, a bureaucratic satire set in medieval China, adapted into the 2025 film *The Lychee Road, English sample available

The Loneliest Guy by Chan Ho-kei 《隱蔽嫌疑人》陳浩基, the latest from Hong Kong’s preeminent crime novelist, author of The Borrowed, English sample available

Green Monkey Syndrome by Andrew Yeh 《綠猴劫》葉言都, 80s classic of “literary sci-fi” from Taiwan, full English manuscript available

Wild Bodhisattva by Li Zishu 《野菩薩》黎紫書, experimental short stories from a Malaysian Chinese prose master, English sample available

Hollow Mountain, Part 2 by Alai 《空山》阿来, the third and fourth novellas of the Hollow Mountain Cycle, Chinese ethnic minority lit, full English manuscript available

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