Hi! I’m a speculative fiction writer/poet based in NYC and Tokyo with over thirty short stories and twenty poems published/forthcoming across a range of speculative and literary magazines.
I’m also a two-time Nebula Award finalist, a 2025 Hugo Award and Astounding Award Finalist, a 2025 Locus Award Finalist, 2023 Ignyte Award finalist, and a 2024 Rhysling Award recipient. Since my first pro publication in 2023, my work has also been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best of Small Fictions, longlisted for the BSFA Awards, featured on Reactor.com, and included on Locus’ annual Recommended Reading List.
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—RECENT WORK—
Fiction
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City”
Published in: Uncanny #64 (May/Jun 2025)
Word Count: 6,024
Genre: Fantasy
“You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. “
– What if you could relive your favorite memories through a haircut? What if you were the one cutting the hair? A story about class, intergenerational trauma, and how far we’d go for the perfect haircut. In the same world as “Kwong’s Bath.”
Read the story here.
Read my Uncanny interview (where I talk about the inspirations/writing process) here.
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191”
Published in: Clarkesworld 224 (May 2025)
Word Count: 1,640
Genre: Sci-fi
– A love story that explores the association of music with memories (with a quasi-soundtrack you can listen to while reading!)
Read the story here
Listen to the story here.
Poetry
“The Language of Fireflies” (The Deadlands, February 2025)
“The Church at the Edge of Time” (Strange Horizons, April 2025)
“Toba Catastrophe Theory” (The Cosmic Background, July 2025)
“The Mourning Robot” (Uncanny Magazine, September 2025)
Angela Liu 