Yin F Lim

Yin F Lim is a writer and editor whose creative non-fiction centres around family, food and migration. In 2025 she won the Mo Siewcharran Prize for her current work-in-progress; a family memoir about her maternal grandmother’s emigration from Southern China to British Malaya in the early 20th century, through which she aims to shine light on the little-known history of the mui tsai (bondmaids).

Yin’s work as a next-generation writer addressing gaps and silences in family histories also secured her a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England in 2022.

Yin holds an MA in Creative Writing (Biography & Creative Non-Fiction) from the University of East Anglia and is associate editor of Hinterland magazine for creative non-fiction. She has published memoir essays in anthologies including Who We Are We Now? A Collection of True Stories About Brexit and A Personal History of Home with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, as well as in literary journals such as The Other Side of Hope and Moxy.

A former journalist from Malaysia, Yin has worked for publications including The Edge business weekly and was founding editor of Personal Money personal finance magazine. She currently lives in Norwich.