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-form 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...See more

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-form 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 . See less