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Isaac Yuen
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✒️ Writer weaving human with the more-than-human
🌍 Book: Utter, Earth, WVU Press
🎶 Book: The Sound Atlas w/ Michaela Vieser, Reaktion Books
🐫 Artwork: The Minimal Animal Project 🐋🦋🦑
🌱 Links to everything: linktr.ee/isaac_yuen
The writer's ritual: @michaelavieser.bsky.social unboxes our author copies of The Sound Atlas, in full hardcover glory!

Out now in the UK via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social and in Nov via @uchicagopress.bsky.social

#soundstories #deeplistening #armchairtraveler
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Thanks to Dr. Miranda Melcher for chatting with us about The Sound Atlas!

Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-sound-at... or wherever you get your podcast!
September 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Next stop in The Sound Atlas: San Francisco, with detours in Baden-Baden, Germany, the Aeolian Islands, Sicily, and Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts—all in an attempt to trace the history of the Aeolian harp, an ancient instrument that is played solely by the wind...
September 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The first chapter & stop of The Sound Atlas is, believe it or not, New Jersey.

There, in 1964, at the Holmdel Horn Antennae, began the saga of two radio astronomers accidentally tuning into a background radiation that originated from the Big Bang, changing the science of cosmology forever...
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thanks to Kyoichi Tsuzuki, renowned photojournalist and author of TOYKO STYLE & ROADSIDE JAPAN, for this heartfelt blurb for THE SOUND ATLAS, coming out next week!

Preorder your copy here: shorturl.at/kKNn3
#soundscape #soundstories #newbook
@michaelavieser.bsky.social
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
UK friends and readers, you can get 25% off the preorder of THE SOUND ATLAS at @waterstones.bsky.social using the code SUMMER25. Offer is exclusive to the Waterstones website & app and ends on 7/31:

Link at www.waterstones.com/book/the-sou...

@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #WPreorder #soundatlas 🌏👂🎶
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Always nice to have a full list of birdcalls in Merlin within a minute. 🐦
May 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
First proof for The Sound Atla I co-wrote with @michaelavieser.bsky.social is here! Final version is coming out this fall. Let me know if you are interested in reviewing it.
April 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Four front-facing creatures from The Minimal Animal Project. More here: rb.gy/mz064a #animalart #sciart
April 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's Earth Day 🌍, and I'm happy to share this conversation I had with curator Mary Woodbury over at Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-Fiction, as part of a spotlight on the works of Hayao Miyazaki: dragonfly.eco/isaac-yuen-o...

#earthday #ecofiction #hayaomiyazaki #ghibli #nausicaa #totoro #mononoke
April 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
An old essay of mine on The Legend of Zelda videogame series, published over at Newfound, a nonprofit publisher whose celebrated work "investigates how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding."

newfound.org/archives/vol...

#zelda #nintendo #hyrule #creativenonfiction #essay
April 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"The name mahi-mahi comes from the Hawaiian language and means 'very strong', through the process of reduplication." ~Wikipedia definition.
March 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Keep swimming. Be brave in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles. Find strength in the vision of a new future birthed from each deed of courage. Keep swimming. Keep fighting.
March 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
March 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Cover reveal for the English edition of THE SOUND ATLAS, co-written with @michaelavieser.bsky.social & published via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Fall 2025!

👉 Pre-orders now available:
UK: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-sou...
US: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
March 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Visiting the UK in early spring, rereading the last and favourite line in Orwell's 1946 essay, thinking of forms of #resistance throughout @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Orwell's Roses.
🐸🌹✊
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
People have been asking for prints and t-shirts of my latest artwork series, so I've made them available over at my artshop, with more designs on the way: www.redbubble.com/people/iyuen...

#sciart #artandresistance #staystrong
March 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We might not have the gold reflective eyes of the splendid alfonsino (what a name!) but it's important to train ourselves to see the light, however faint, to the world goes dark. It is important to never lose sight of what we are fighting for.
March 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Alepisaurus ferox, or the longnose lancetfish. Seen as bycatch with no commercial value. A vital monitor for ocean health. All fang and fin and punk rock. A fish to rally behind for the modern age.✊
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Endure amidst the current
Be motionless in the tumult
When the shadow descends
Be muscle, be maw, be might
And fend with one's being entire
March 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Always a good time to make art, but rarely a better time than now. Stay strong. Hold true. Keep making. 🦑🤝🦑
March 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"How to Debate as a Fish"

Listen to me read one of the essays from my essay collection UTTER, EARTH: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World, published by @wvupress.bsky.social 🎏🐟👂

m.soundcloud.com/vestopr/isaa...

#naturewriting
January 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Pacific Chub Mackerel.
Part of the "Aquatic Beings of Japan" stamp design series.
#animalart 🎏
January 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Japanese Yellowtail or Amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)
Part of the "Aquatic Beings of Japan" stamp design series.
#animalart 🐟
January 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A trio of chum or keta salmon. (Oncorhynchus keta)
Part of the "Aquatic Beings of Japan" series.
#animalart
January 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM