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Yan Li ( Chinese: 李彥; born 1955) is a Beijing-born Chinese-Canadian fiction author who has written in both Chinese and English. In China, she worked as a translator, instructor and journalist. ^[1] Having moved to Canada in 1987, her 1995 novel Daughters of the Red Land, felt by some to be autobiographical, was a finalist for a Books in Canada First Novel Award. ^{[2] [3] [4]} She teaches at Renison University College and has been director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo. ^{[1] [5] [6]} Her novel Lily in the Snow (2009) followed a Chinese immigrant family in Ontario. ^[7]

• Daughters of the Red Land (1995) ^{[8] [9]}
• Lily in the Snow (2009) ^{[7] [10]}