YoYo (Liu Youhong)

YoYo (Liu Youhong) is a writer and artist based in Berlin. Her novel Ghost Tide (2005) has been translated into English. YoYo has taught at several universities such as Eton College, Windsor, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her artistic work includes performances and paintings, which were exhibited in the Berlin Avantgarde gallery in 2013. YoYo has been invited to take up writer-in-residence positions and arts projects in China, USA and throughout Europe, among others at the University of Shantou, Guangdong province, China; at Yaddo, an artist colony in New York; the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Germany; at the Centro Civitella Ranieri in Italy; at Cove Park in England and at MEET in France.