Angela Liu

I had 9 stories published this year but would be honored if you checked out these two for Nebula/Hugo/Locus consideration🙏 1) “Another Girl Under The Iron Bell” (horror romantasy novelette) uncannymagazine.com/article/anothe… 2) “Before We Were Born” (sci-fi short) logicmag.io/issue-21-medic…

Someone recently told me I should write more happy/optimistic endings if I want to leave a better impression on readers (“to have mass appeal”), but I want to believe it’s better to write stories that are loved by some + hated by others than ones that are “just fine” to everyone

Been thinking about how the best stories are the ones where the main character can just disappear for a quarter of the book/series and you don’t even care because you’re having such a good time with the side characters and world.

Hugo voting closes on July 23rd! My poem "there are no taxis for the dead" in @UncannyMagazine is up for the inaugural Hugo Award for Best Poem! I'm also up for the Astounding Award (ahh!). Be sure to check out all the amazing finalists! Thanks everyone! uncannymagazine.com/article/there-…

ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards? "there are no taxis for the dead" by Angela Liu @liu_angela is a finalist for a Best Poem Hugo Award! Read it here or in the Hugo Award Packet! uncannymagazine.com/article/there-…

Someday I’d like to have a whole shelf of contributor copies. Huge thanks to @thedeadlands for letting me add this gorgeous book to my collection and for giving my poem “The Language of Fireflies” a home. psychopomp.com/deadlands/issu…

Happy to see my @UncannyMagazine story “Barbershops of the Floating City” recommended alongside so many of my recent favorites 🙏 uncannymagazine.com/article/barber…

Today my book child is out in the world! Thank you for all the support! This is so surreal.

I have a new poem out in @theCosmicbgr! “Toba Catastrophe Theory” is one of the first spec poems I wrote and still has one of my favorite lines. So happy to see another magazine publishing spec poetry! thecosmicbackground.com/poetry/angela-…

Look what came in the mail 😭 Thanks @sfwa!

Ahh, so cool to see my @UncannyMagazine story “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” featured in this video about curses in fiction! Thanks @TimHickson1! youtu.be/GTEQ7yKXBZE?si…

Go read THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART by Monika Kim if you haven’t already. This book fixed my attention span—I’ve never finished a novel so fast. The REVENGE, the gasp-out-loud body horror, the toxic parents/intergenerational trauma—this is horror at its absolute best.

It’s out!! My cursed tattoo story “A Contract of Ink and Skin” is in here alongside some of the best weird stories of 2024 (with one of my favorite covers in recent memory)! Loved @AlexWoodroe's foreword and the idea of “a garden of Weird and wonder.” store.tenebrouspress.com/products/brave…

My poem, “High School Graduation, June 2099” is out today in the final issue of Worlds of Possibility! Loved @omgjulia's description for it: “queer solarpunk futures and the bittersweetness of coming of age.” Check it out here: juliarios.com/introducing-th…

Hey, I’m doing my first online reading ever on 6/19 (*cue panic*). I’ll be reading from my Locus Award-nominated story “Another Girl Under the Iron Bell” (in @UncannyMagazine) alongside Premee Mohamed. Check out the full schedule of readings here: locusmag.com/2025-locus-awa…

I have a new sci-fi story out at @CastOfWonders (my first audio reprint!)! “KAOSU: The Last Moving Country In The World” is about dark tourism, influencer culture, and a train closed off from the outside world. castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast-o…

Strange Horizons has been one of the best spec magazines for more than two DECADES. They’ve supported diverse voices from the start and are always the first place I go for spec poetry. I’ve donated and if you love spec short fic/poetry, this is a great investment in its future.