Acclaimed writer Yiyun Li will speak on “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies” at Boston College on February 25 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall 100. Her debut novel, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won a PEN/Hemingway Award, and her short story collection Wednesday’s Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He novel The Book of Goose won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her most recent work, Things in Nature Merely Grow—written after the death of her son James—was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” and a 2021 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other accolades. Li is a professor at Princeton University, where she directs the Program in Creative Writing. Li’s appearance is co-sponsored by the Lowell Humanities Series, Boston College Fiction Days Series, and the Asian American Studies Program. The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required.