Writer Profile: Yu Ya

Yu Ya (1987) is the youngest scion of one of Myanmars most famous literary families. The only woman in Myanmar to hold both a BA and MA in creative writing, she has won awards in interstate poetry competitions at township and state level. She has published over 40 short stories, poems and essays for several of the leading literary journals in Myanmar including Shwe Amyutae, Thouk Kyar, Yati and Padouk Pwint Thit. She currently works for BBC Media Action contributing to radio dramas on social and community issues.

*This is the fourteenth in a series of adapted profiles on writers taken from the 2017 anthology Hidden Words Hidden Worlds: Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar