Dorothy Tse

Dorothy Tse (謝曉虹) writes fiction that occupies the uncanny space between Hong Kong's gleaming surfaces and its surreal depths. Her work in That We May Live, an anthology of speculative Chinese fiction, showcases her ability to transform the anxieties of contemporary life into stories that are strange, darkly funny, and politically charged.

Based in Hong Kong and writing in Chinese, Tse is one of the most inventive voices in the city's literary scene. Her fiction draws on horror, fairy tale, and urban fantasy to examine gender, power, and the particular pressures of life in a city that is itself a kind of speculative fiction — always reimagining itself, always on the edge of transformation. She writes with the unsettling precision of someone who sees the cracks in reality that others prefer to ignore.