Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, translator, musician, and editor. She writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. She also works with Italian and Japanese. 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), eighteen translations—including Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm by bestselling Chinese poet and essayist Yu Xiuhua (Astra House, 2021)—and three coedited anthologies of international literature.

Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, Sze-Lorrain was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize among other honors. A 2019–20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination and the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, she is an editor at Vif Éditions in Paris. As a zheng harpist, she has performed widely in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. She serves on the Society of Authors’ Translators Association Committee. A judge for the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award, she lives in France.