About
Ash Huang is a writer, artist, and designer. She has been published in Lightspeed, Ecotone, Apparition Literary, Orion’s Belt, Alien Magazine, Catapult, Fast Company, 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 First Reader 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.
Ash is represented by Hana El Niwairi of CookeMcDermid.
Keep in touch with Ash via her occasional newsletter.
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Awards, fellowships, and workshops
- Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Residency with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 2025–6
- Tin House Reading Fellowship, 2024–5
- Character-Driven Worldbuilding with Personality Archetypes, Presentation at Flights of Foundry, 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
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Contact
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