Yuan Lin graduated from Dickinson College in 2016, where she double-majored in Studio Art and Theatre (Design and Technology concentration) and minored in music. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Boston University in 2018.

    She has another name "Wendy", which she drew from a lottery in her first-grade English class in Shanghai, China. The teacher had a plastic bag full of names on paper slips and let the people who behaved well to draw the lottery first. When it was her turn, she got assigned “Wendy”.

    In Chinese, her first name "yuan" (圆) means: a circle, to complete a full circle, or to realize a dream.