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 is currently a Reading Fellow for the Tin House Workshop.

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 via her occasional newsletter.

For reference

She/her ✴︎ On Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00) ✴︎ Huang is pronounced Hwah-ng, all one syllable (There are 75 million of us, just saying)

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Awards, fellowships, and workshops

• 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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Selected interviews

• Meet Ash Huang, XD Designer at Adobe by Day and Renaissance Woman by Night by Adobe
• Designer/Writer Ash Huang on How She Bootstrapped her Novel to Reality by Lumi

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Contact

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