Isabel Yi

I’m Isabel 玥 Li, a Chinese-Kiwi artist, writer, and human-computer interaction researcher. I studied Computer Science, Creative Writing, Design, and New Media at UC Berkeley. I conduct human-computer interaction research at the Berkeley Institute of Design, investigating creativity support tools for artists and youths’ technological futures. I often cross the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. You can find me wide-eyed at the gachapon in Japantown, documenting each dog at Alamo Square with a Kuretake, or hovering behind the fiction at Unity Books. You can find some of my illustrations and writing published in The New River, Taper, Kernel, Re-Draft, and forthcoming in The Seventh Wave, and Club Rambutan. Some things that make my heart beat faster include queer interpretations of pre-19th century literature, cartoons with awful bad-boy characters, peculiar ice cream flavours, clothing with ribbons and pearled buttons, sitting by the sea, and coming across cognates organically.