A Diagram of the Two Sexes

Zhu Yue was born in Beijing, in 1977. He practiced as a lawyer before becoming an editor. As Paper Republic puts it, “China is not short of writers who swear fealty to Borges, but Zhu Yue is one of the few whose work has philosophical weight to substantiate the metafictional trimmings.” To date, Zhu has published four short-story collections: The Blindfolded Traveler (2006), Masters of Sleep (2010), Chaos of Fiction (2015), and Running Wild (2021).

Alyssa Asquith is a recent graduatesof the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA degree in fiction. Asquith’s stories have appeared in The Adroit Journal, X-R-A-Y, Hobart, Atticus Review, and elsewhere.

Jianan Qian is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA degree in fiction. Qian is a staff writer at The Millions, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Guernica, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among others.