About

Born in Taipei, educated between Pretoria and Johannesburg, and now based in Chicago, Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen is a cultural worker committed to championing African literary and photographic practices. Their PhD dissertation-in-progress considers how contemporary African writers and photographers draw on animism as a strategy to pose different questions about what it means to be human. Always thinking at the intersections of postcolonial, queer and black studies, their work more broadly is driven by questions about what it means to relate ethically across identity categories.

Sreddy’s writing can be found in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Research in African Literatures, the Johannesburg Review of Books, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, and the Nairobi Print Project journal. They are also the guest curator of the upcoming exhibition Testaments to the Beautyful Ones at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. When not posting about the books they are reading on Instagram at @sreddyen, they are in the kitchen furiously stress-baking.

Resume/CV available upon request.