Career
Yu was born in Shanghai in 1949. She worked in Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1968. She graduated from Tianjin Normal University in 1974.
After graduation, Yu worked in Tianjin Art Academy (天津工艺美术学院) and Tianjin Collage of Traditional Chinese Medicine (天津中医学院) as a teacher.
Yu started to publish novels in 1981. She joined the China Writers Association in 1991.
