Regina Kanyu Wang

At the forefront of a new generation of Chinese science fiction writers, Regina Kanyu Wang bridges the gap between Chinese and anglophone speculative fiction as both author and curator. Her editorial work on The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories — an anthology featuring exclusively female and nonbinary Chinese SF writers — is a landmark collection that reshaped how the English-speaking world encounters Chinese speculative fiction.

Wang's own fiction blends technological speculation with deeply human concerns, and her work appears in major year's-best anthologies alongside established names. Based in Shanghai, she's also a tireless advocate for Chinese SF internationally, organizing conferences and fostering translation. She represents a new model of the science fiction writer — one who builds literary communities as skillfully as she builds fictional worlds.