Angela Liu

Angela Liu is a three-time Nebula Award, Astounding Award, and Hugo Award-nominated writer/poet based in NYC and Tokyo. Her work has also been nominated for the Locus, Ignyte, and Rhysling Awards. She is MEXT recipient and holds a Master’s degree from Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design in Japan where she researched mixed reality (with a focus on interactive narrative platforms and tangible interfaces for remote communication). 

Her short fiction is published/forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Dark, Fusion Fragment, Maudlin House, Cast of Wonders, Logic(s) Magazine, khōréō, Electric Literature, and Lightspeed, among others. Her novelette, “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon,” was a 2024 Nebula Award and Ignyte Award finalist. Her novelette, “Another Girl Under The Iron Bell” was a 2025 Nebula Award Finalist and Locus Award finalist, and a notable story in 2025’s The Best of American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her story “Salt Girl” was nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net Award.

Her poetry can be found in Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Small Wonders, Uncanny Magazine, Heartlines Spec, and more. Her poem “there are no taxis for the dead” was a finalist for the inaugural Hugo Award for Best Poem in 2025. Her poem “An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis” won 3rd place in the 2023 Rhysling Awards. Her poem “The Mourning Robot” is a finalist for the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Poem.

She is a full member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). She is also a member of the writing collective Codex and a part of the 2026 Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop cohort. Find her on Twitter/Instagram at @liu_angela and on Bluesky.

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