Dorothy Tse: Reading and Q&A

A photo of the author Dorothy Tse. She has dark brown, short hair and wears a sleeveless black top. She is in a room with pale yellow walls and looks down. Next to her photo is the cover art for her novel City Like Water. The cover is off white with bold black text, and has a drawing of a boat with a face and a city on top of it in black and green.

Dorothy Tse is a writer from Hong Kong. Her debut novel, Owlish, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and her short story collection, Snow and Shadow, was long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. A cofounder of the literary journal Fleurs des Lettres, she has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, and Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award. Her novel City Like Water is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in March 2026.