Born in Hong Kong and raised in Queens, Chiyeung is a fiction writer, copywriter, chess enthusiast, and cat parent to three cats.

He is a Roots Wounds Words fellow and an alumnus of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Tin House Summer Workshop. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Delta Review, Ghost Parachute, Flash Frog, and elsewhere. He is currently an Senior Fiction Editor at JMWW Journal.

He is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.