Ken Liu

Some of Liu's work have been adapted into visual media. "Memories of My Mother," a short story, was the basis of "Beautiful Dreamer" by David Gaddie. "Real Artists," a short story, was adapted into a short film by Cameo Wood. "Good Hunting," a short story, was adapted into an animated short as part of Netflix's Love, Death & Robots series in 2019.

After a long career writing and publishing short fiction, Liu turned to epic fantasy novels, starting with The Grace of Kings in 2015. He has also written for the Star Wars universe, with The Legends of Luke Skywalker in 2017.

Besides his original work, Liu's translation of Liu Cixin's Chinese language novel The Three-Body Problem (the first in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, making it the first translated novel to have won the award. Liu also translated the third volume of the Remembrance of Earth's Past series, Death's End, in 2016, which was a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist.

Liu's short story "The Paper Menagerie" is the first work of fiction, of any length, to win the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. In addition, his short story, "Mono no aware" won the 2013 Hugo Award, and his novella "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" was also nominated for a Hugo. The first novel in his The Dandelion Dynasty series, The Grace of Kings, was a 2016 Nebula Award finalist. The novel was the 2016 Locus Award Best First Novel winner.

Ken Liu (born 1976) is an multiple Hugo Award winning American author of science-fiction and fantasy, as well as a translator, lawyer, and computer programmer. His epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, the first work in the "silkpunk" genre, is published by Simon & Schuster. His short stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.

Liu was born in 1976 in Lanzhou, China. He spent his childhood with his grandparents. His mother, who received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in the United States, is a pharmaceutical chemist, while his father is a computer engineer. The family emigrated to the United States when Liu was 11 years old. They lived in California and Stonington before settling in Waterford. Liu graduated from Waterford High School in 1994, where he ran cross-country and track. At Harvard College, he studied English Literature and Computer Science, receiving his A. B. in 1998. After graduation, he worked as a software engineer for Microsoft, and then joined a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He later received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004 and after working as a corporate lawyer, eventually became a high-tech litigation consultant. He began publishing fiction in 2002. His first published work was "Carthaginian Rose", a short story on mind uploading which was published alongside nine other authors in The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1.