Isabelle Li is a Chinese Australian writer and translator based in Sydney. She has published in various anthologies and literary journals including The Best Australian Stories, Sleepers Almanac, New Australian Stories, Southerly, Westerly and UTS Writers' Anthology. Her collection of short stories A Chinese Affair was published by Margaret River Press in 2016. Her prose translations have appeared in Sydney Review of Books and her poetry translations in Mascara, and World Literature and Works in China. Her Chinese translation of Sebastian Barry's novel The Secret Scripture was published by Zhejiang Literature & Art Publishing House. Her script MOONCAKE AND CRAB was made into a short film, funded by Screen NSW and premiered at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival. She is a fellow of Varuna and was the inaugural winner of the Mascara Bundanon Writer's Residency. She received her Doctor of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University.