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Short bio

E. Lily Yu is the author of On Fragile Waves, winner of the Washington State Book Award; Jewel Box, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the World Fantasy Award; and Break, Blow, Burn, & Make. She received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and her stories have appeared in fourteen best-of-the-year anthologies.

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Long bio

E. Lily Yu is the author of On Fragile Waves, which won the Washington State Book Award for Fiction; Jewel Box, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, the World Fantasy Award, and the Washington State Book Award; and Break, Blow, Burn, & Make. She was the librettist of Stars Between for the Seattle Opera's 2021 Jane Lang Creation Lab. She has also received the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Individual stories have appeared in venues from McSweeney's to Tor.com, as well as fourteen best-of-the-year anthologies, and have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards.

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