Ash Huang is a writer. Her fiction appears in Lightspeed, Ecotone, Apparition Literary Magazine, Orion’s Belt and elsewhere. She won the 2022 Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and is a grateful alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Workshop, the Tin House Winter Workshop, and the Periplus Fellowship. She is currently a Tin House Reading Fellow.
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Lately
A Superior Knot
Do it. The last words she spoke before we cinched the green ribbon around her neck, a stark line bisecting her head from her body, a scrap we’d buried to gather magic under the mother tree. We tied the final knot. She took up her sword, a girl become death, the edge of her blade fine enough to cleave three dimensions into one, determined enough to halve a stone pillar with one quivering swing of the arm.
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Presenting at Flights of Foundry
Join me at Flights of Foundry on September 27th~ Construct worlds based on character personalities, not just the customs and evidence they leave behind. Whether you swerve from traditional ideas of worldbuilding (or keep a warren-like Notion that’s only missing tacks and red string), this presentation will discuss creating believable characters using personality archetypes, building worlds to illuminate those characters, and how to creating meaningful, airtight conflict, no matter the world size.
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