Chinese-American writer and translator, Rebecca F. Kuang was born in Guangzhou, China, on May 29, 1996. At the age of four, she moved to the United States with her parents.
Kuang studied History at Georgetown University, later specializing in Chinese Studies and Contemporary Chinese Studies at Cambridge and Oxford, and earning a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
As a writer, Kuang is known for her fantasy novels, which have earned her nominations for prestigious awards in the genre such as the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy. Her works include the Poppy War trilogy, Babel (Nebula Award 2022), and Yellow.
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