Alec Ash

Alec Ash is a writer and editor focused on China, where he lived from 2008–2022. He is the author of Wish Lanterns (Picador, 2016), literary nonfiction about the lives of six young Chinese people, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. His long-orm articles have appeared in NYRB, LARB, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and elsewhere, and he was a stringer for The Sunday Times and The Economist. He was previously editor of LARB China Channel, founder of the writers’ collective The Anthill, and contributed to two anthologies of literary reportage, Chinese Characters, and While We’re Here. Currently he is editor of the China Books Review.