Yiming Ma shares why he transitioned from the tech andfinance world into writing, what inspired his dystopian novel These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, and why he sees his memories in monochrome.

Born in Shanghai, YIMING MA spent a decade in thetech and finance world across New York, Toronto, London, Berlin, and South Africa before writing the dystopian novel These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, set in a world where memories are bought and sold.

He attended Stanford for his MBA and also holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was named the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. His story “Swimmer of Yangtze” won the 2018Guardian 4th Estate Story Prize.

At time 20:30 he reads from These Memories Do NotBelong to Us.

Visit him at www.yiming-ma.com.

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