E. Lily Yu is a fiction writer, poet, playwright, and game writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Kenyon Review Online, Boston Review, Clarkesworld, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. She is a graduate of Princeton University and a doctoral student at Cornell. She received the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer as well as nominations for Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards.