Ken Liu

Ken Liu was born in Lanzhou, China, and moved to the United States as a child. He graduated from Harvard College in 1998 and from Harvard Law School in 2004. His first published short story, “The Carthaginian Rose,” appeared in The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1 – Empire of Dreams and Miracles (2002). He has published two books of short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016) and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (2020); three novels in his epic fantasy series the Dandelion Dynasty, The Grace of Kings (2015), The Wall of Storms (2016), and The Veiled Throne (2021); and one Star Wars tie-in collection, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017). Ken Liu is well regarded in the science fiction and fantasy writing community; among the many writing awards he has won, he received a Nebula Award, a Hugo Award, and a World Fantasy Award for his short story “The Paper Menagerie.” In addition to writing original fiction, Ken Liu is famous as a translator of Chinese science fiction, most notably Cixin Liu’s bestselling novel The Three-Body Problem, which was published in Chinese in 2008 and in English translation in 2014.