Contact & Bio
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About Ash
Ash Huang is an American writer, artist, and designer. She has been published in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone, Orion’s Belt, Catapult, and elsewhere. In 2022, she won the Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and is an alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Retreat, Tin House Winter Workshop, and the Periplus Fellowship. She was a Reading Fellow for the Tin House Workshop in 2024–2025. She is currently a Fiction Editor at Orion’s Belt, and a Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Resident with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
Her speculative fiction examines themes such as inherited and intergenerational stories, nostalgia and misremembering, our complicated relationship with social media and technology, her particular slice of Chinese America, and diasporic co-creation. She has also written essays on motherhood, equity in tech and design, as well as creativity and maintaining a creative practice. She co-hosts the podcast Thanks but Not for Me with K.M. Veohongs, about writing and publishing.
Ash is represented by Hana El Niwairi of CookeMcDermid.
Keep in touch with Ash via her monthly-ish newsletter and pep talks, That’s a Lot of Pep Talks
For reference
Selected Honors
Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Residency with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 2025–6
Worldcon 2025 Panels: Workshops and Writing Programs · Writing and Publishing in Different Genres
Tin House Reading Fellowship, 2024–5
Character-Driven Worldbuilding with Personality Archetypes, Presentation at Flights of Foundry, 2024
Reading at Story Hour, 2024
Space Economy Camp for Writers, 2023
Roots. Wounds. Words. Retreat for speculative fiction, 2023
Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, 2022
Futurescapes Writers’ Workshop, 2022
Tin House Winter Workshop for short fiction in 2022
The Periplus Collective Fellowship, 2021
First Place for Mainstream/Literary Fiction for The Firesteel, Writer’s Digest 3rd Annual Self-Published e-Book Awards