Min Li Chan
Essayist and technologist
Min Li Chan is an essayist and technologist based in Oakland, California. Her essays have appeared in The Yale Review, New England Review, The Point Magazine, and BuzzFeed, and she is currently at work on a collection of essays on art, algorithms, language, and precarity in contemporary technological life. She is a recipient of the 2018 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellowship and a finalist for Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s inaugural Writer’s Fellowship. As a technologist in Silicon Valley, she has worked on speculative technologies from self-driving cars to tools for citizen cartography. Min Li was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
