S. L. Huang

Shi Lian Huang, known as Lisa, is from New Jersey. She completed a degree in mathematics at MIT before moving to Los Angeles.{{cite web |title=How Working in the US Film Industry Helped Me Write a Criminal Underworld |url=https://www.criminalelement.com/how-working-in-the-us-film-industry-helped-me-write-a-criminal-underworld/ |website=Criminal Element |date=2 October 2018}}{{cite web |title=S. L. Huang |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s-l-huang/?preview=true |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}} She experienced Hodgkin lymphoma as a child.

After moving to Hollywood to become a stuntwoman and weapons expert, Huang was diagnosed with breast cancer, which "derailed her physicality" for a time.{{cite web |last1=Ford |first1=Anne |title=Is There Anything S. L. Huang Can't Do? |url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-July-2019/Is-There-Anything-SL-Huang-Cant-Do/ |website=Chicago magazine |language=en}} She turned to writing when unable to actively work on sets.

She is known for her Cas Russell series, as well as her fantasy novella Burning Roses released in 2020. She began as a self-published author but was picked up by Tor Books.{{cite web |title=Interview: S. L. Huang, author of the Cas Russell series |url=http://www.nerds-feather.com/2020/04/interview-sl-huang-author-of-cas.html |language=en}} The characters in the Cas Russell books, and the superintelligent abilities that they actuate, reflect Huang's background in the mathematical sciences.

Huang also writes short fiction, which won her the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2020 with "As the Last I May Know".{{cite web |title=2020 Hugo Awards |url=https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2020-hugo-awards/ |website=The Hugo Awards}} She has been published in a number of anthologies and magazines including Strange Horizons and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016.{{cite web |title=S. L. Huang {{!}} Authors {{!}} Macmillan |url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/slhuang/ |website=US Macmillan}}{{cite web |title=Calculated combat |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/24/238457/calculated-combat/ |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}

Her work in television includes Battlestar Galactica and Raising Hope, as well as reality shows Top Shot and Auction Hunters. She has trained actors such as Nathan Fillion, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jason Momoa, and Danny Glover.

Huang identifies as genderqueer.{{Cite web |title=S. L. Huang's New Take on the Most Famous Chinese Novel You've Never Read in English: Announcing The Water Outlaws |work=Tor.com |date=15 October 2020 |access-date=7 November 2020 |url= https://www.tor.com/2020/10/15/book-announcements-s-l-huang-the-water-outlaws/ |quote=but one of my favorite parts about my retelling is the genderflipping—or as a genderqueer person, perhaps I should say genderspinning. }}

A summary bibliography was adapted from the isfdb.{{cite web |title=Summary Bibliography: S. L. Huang |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?216131 |accessdate=7 September 2020 |website=isfdb.com}}

• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Zero Sum Game |publisher=self-published |year=2014 |isbn=978-0996070034 |edition=paperback |pages=1–328 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Half Life |publisher=self-published |year=2014 |isbn=978-0996070041 |edition=ebook |pages=1–314 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Root of Unity |publisher=self-published |year=2015 |isbn=978-0996070065 |edition=ebook |pages= |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Plastic Smile |publisher=self-published |year=2016 |isbn= |edition=kindle |pages=1–294 |asin=B01GVPR39S |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Golden Mean |publisher=unpublished |year=2016 |isbn= |edition= |pages= |asin= |author-mask=2}}

• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Zero Sum Game |publisher=Tor Books |year=2018 |isbn=978-1250180254 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–336 |author-mask=2}}previously self-published in 2014 in significantly different form
• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Null Set |publisher=Tor Books |year=2019 |isbn=978-1250180308 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–320 |author-mask=2}}essentially a re-written Plastic Smile
• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Critical Point |publisher=Tor Books |year=2020 |isbn=978-1250180360 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–368 |author-mask=2}}finally a published version of Golden Mean
• Stories:
• "A Neurological Study on the Effects of Canine Appeal on Psychopathy, or Rio Adopts a Puppy" (2015)
• "An Examination of Collegial Dynamics as Expressed Through Marksmanship, or Ladies' Day Out" (2015)

• The River Judge (2024)
• The Water Outlaws (2023)

• {{Cite book |last=Huang |first=S.L. |title=Burning Roses |publisher=Tor.com |year=2020 |isbn=978-1250763990 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–160 |author-mask=2}}

• Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors (2016) with Kurt Hunt

• "Hunting Monsters" (2014)
• "By Degrees and Dilatory Time" (2015)
• "My Grandmother's Bones" (2016)
• "The Documentarian" (2016)
• "The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist" (2016)
• "The Last Robot" (2017)
• "Split Shadow" (2017)
• "Time Travel Is Only for the Poor" (2017)
• "The Woman Who Destroyed Us" (2018)
• "Dulce et Decorum" (2018)
• "Devouring Tongues" (2018)
• "As the Last I May Know" (2019)
• "The Million-Mile Sniper" (2020)
• Murder by Pixel (2022)

{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website}}
• {{ISFDB name|name=Shi Lian Huang}}

{{Hugo Award Best Short Story 2001–2020}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huang, Shi Lian}}

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people

Category:21st-century American writers

Category:American non-binary writers

Category:American science fiction writers

Category:Hugo Award–winning writers

Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

Category:Writers from New Jersey

Category:Non-binary science fiction writers