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E. Lily Yu

Birth place: USA

47 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
July 2008 |17 Poem What Comes After Rain Goblin Fruit, Summer 2008
2010 Poem Patience Electric Velocipede, Fall 2010
July 2010 |3 Poem Come True Goblin Fruit, Summer 2010
July 2010 |5 Poem The Poet to the Wasp Queen Among the Plums Goblin Fruit, Summer 2010
April 2011 Short Fiction The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011
April 2011 Short Fiction The Transfiguration of Maria Luisa Ortega PodCastle, Miniature 62
August 2012 5 Interview Spotlight: E. Lilly Yu Locus, #619 August 2012
2013 369 Short Fiction The Pilgrim and the Angel McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Winter 2013
January 2013 Short Fiction Tiger in the BSE PodCastle, #243
March 2013 Short Fiction Loss, with Chalk Diagrams Eclipse Online, March 10, 2013
May 2013 Short Fiction Ilse, Who Saw Clearly Apex Magazine, May 2013
June 2013 Short Fiction The Urashima Effect Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2013
July 2013 Review The Urashima Effect StarShipSofa, No 297
September 2013 Review Loss, with Chalk Diagrams StarShipSofa, No 306
December 2013 Short Fiction Daedalum, the Devil's Wheel Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2013
September 2014 Short Fiction The Forgetting Shiraz PodCastle, #330
December 2014 Short Fiction Local Stop on the Floating Train Terraform, December 22, 2014
July 2015 |17 Interview Interview: E. Lily Yu Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2015
July 2015 |4 Short Fiction Woman at Exhibition Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2015
August 2015 109 Interview Writing for Video Games: A Conversation with E. Lily Yu, Yoon Ha Lee, Robert Reed, Seth Dickinson, and Karl Schroeder Clarkesworld, August 2015
January 2016 236 Short Fiction Braid of Days and Wake of Nights The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January-February 2016
February 2016 |5 Review Daedalum, the Devil's Wheel StarShipSofa, No 422
August 2016 |2 Short Fiction The Gardener and the King's Menagerie Bracken, August 2016
September 2016 8 Short Fiction Paul Flitch's Slap-Bang Fracas with Mister Delusio Daily Science Fiction, September 2016
September 2016 |1 Short Fiction The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2016
2017 |4 Short Fiction Darkout People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
February 2017 Short Fiction The Wretched and the Beautiful Terraform, 6 February 2017
June 2017 Short Fiction The White-Throated Transmigrant Tor.com, June 21, 2017
March 2018 Short Fiction Music for the Underworld Terraform, March 29, 2018
March 2018 |5 Short Fiction The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther Shore Clarkesworld, March 2018
May 2019 50 Short Fiction The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2019
July 2019 Short Fiction Zero in Babel Slate, July 27, 2019
October 2019 |14 Interview Author Spotlight: E. Lily Yu Lightspeed, October 2019
October 2019 |4 Short Fiction The Valley of Wounded Deer Lightspeed, October 2019
December 2019 Short Fiction The Time Invariance of Snow Tor.com, December 4, 2019
December 2020 |13 Interview Interview: E. Lily Yu Lightspeed, December 2020
January 2021 128 Interview The Ten-Year Journey: A Conversation with E. Lily Yu Clarkesworld, January 2021
February 2021 |11 Review On Fragile Waves Lightspeed, February 2021
May 2021 |11 Essay A Love Letter to Libraries Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2021
May 2021 11|11.2 Review On Fragile Waves The New York Times Book Review, May 16, 2021
June 2021 |4 Review On Fragile Waves Strange Horizons, 14 June 2021
October 2021 Short Fiction Small Monsters Tor.com, October 20, 2021
December 2021 |8 Short Fiction Three Variations on a Theme of Imperial Attire Lightspeed, December 2021
November 2022 204 Review On Fragile Waves Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2022
January 2023 |34 Interview Interview: E. Lily Yu Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2023
January 2023 |11 Short Fiction The Father Provincial of Mare Imbrium Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2023
March 2023 Short Fiction The River and the World Remade Tor.com, March 29, 2023

5 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2017 Chapbook The White-Throated Transmigrant E. Lily Yu
2019 Chapbook The Time Invariance of Snow E. Lily Yu
2021 Novel On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu
2021 Chapbook Small Monsters E. Lily Yu
2023 Collection Jewel Box E. Lily Yu

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2011 Asimov's Undergraduate Award / Dell Magazines Award Undergraduate Excellence in SF & Fantasy Writing The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees Nominee
2012 Asimov's Undergraduate Award / Dell Magazines Award Undergraduate Excellence in SF & Fantasy Writing Ilse, Who Saw Clearly Nominee
2012 Hugo Award Best Short Story The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees Runner-up
2012 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees Finalist
2012 Nebula Award Short Story The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees Nominee
2012 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees Nominee
2012 WSFA Small Press Award WSFA Small Press Award The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees Nominee
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Ilse, Who Saw Clearly Nominee
2014 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction The Urashima Effect Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The White-Throated Transmigrant Nominee
2022 Endeavour Award Distinguished Novel or Collection On Fragile Waves Nominee
2022 Hugo Award Best Novelette Small Monsters Nominee
2022 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel On Fragile Waves Nominee
2022 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Small Monsters Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Jewel Box Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The River and the World Remade Nominee
2024 World Fantasy Award Best Collection Jewel Box Nominee

In 2012, she was the winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction with her short story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees." Her short fiction has appeared in various venues such as McSweeney's, Boston Review, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year.
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