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Yoon Ha Lee

January 26, 1979 (age 47)

Birth place: Houston, Texas, USA

128 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 1999 96 Short Fiction The Hundredth Question The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999
April 2000 117 Short Fiction Echoes Down an Endless Hall The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2000
January 2001 70 Short Fiction Alas, Lirette The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2001
June 2001 4 Short Fiction Counting the Shapes The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2001
June 2002 90 Short Fiction The Black Abacus The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2002
July 2003 Poem When Soft the Water Fell Strange Horizons, 7 July 2003
September 2004 4 Poem Red Witch of Colchis Star*Line, September-October 2004
October 2004 Review The Book of Flying Strange Horizons, 4 October 2004
December 2004 34 Poem Lizard Place The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Winter 2004-2005
December 2004 31 Poem Void-Egg Verses The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Winter 2004-2005
2005 16 Poem Credo The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2005
March 2005 Poem Equinox Strange Horizons, 14 March 2005
April 2005 Essay Hubris and Synthesis in Kate Constable's The Singer of All Songs Strange Horizons, 4 April 2005
April 2005 Poem Kingdom of Dust and Steel Abyss & Apex, 2nd Quarter 2005
June 2005 50 Short Fiction Eating Hearts The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005
July 2005 19 Short Fiction Moon, Paper, Scissors Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, July 2005
July 2005 29 Poem The Damsel's Unicorn Mythic Delirium, Winter/Spring 2005
July 2005 Essay The Dangerous Duckling: Images of Beauty and Illusion in The Perilous Gard Strange Horizons, 25 July 2005
August 2005 |1 Short Fiction Words Written in Fire Shadows of Saturn, Issue #3, August-September 2005
September 2005 |4 Short Fiction The Sun's Kiss Ideomancer, September 2005
October 2005 Poem Dear Yourself Abyss & Apex, 4th Quarter 2005
October 2005 Review In the Palace of Repose Strange Horizons, 10 October 2005
November 2005 13 Poem Lacunae Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2005
November 2005 9 Poem Lines Star*Line, November/December 2005
January 2006 13 Poem Haunted Dreams & Nightmares, January 2006
January 2006 42 Short Fiction Nine Tails, Hundred Hearts Fantasy Magazine #2, Spring 2006
January 2006 Poem Unicorn Flesh Raven Electrick, January 2006
March 2006 20 Short Fiction So That Her High-Born Kinsmen Came Sybil's Garage, March 2006
March 2006 Poem Stella Rosetta Strange Horizons, 13 March 2006
June 2006 |4 Short Fiction Unstringing the Bow Ideomancer, June 2006
July 2006 |6 Poem Family Values in Hameln Goblin Fruit, Summer 2006
October 2006 Review The Privilege of the Sword Strange Horizons, 9 October 2006
2007 24 Poem Echo The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2007
2007 25 Poem Icarus The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2007
January 2007 24 Poem Banquet Mythic Delirium, Winter/Spring 2007
February 2007 Review Mathematicians in Love Strange Horizons, 5 February 2007
June 2007 |3 Short Fiction Screamers Ideomancer, June 2007
July 2007 Short Fiction The Shadow Postulates Helix, Summer 2007
October 2007 Short Fiction Notes on the Necromantic Symphony Farrago's Wainscot, October 2007
August 2008 Short Fiction Blue Ink Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2008
October 2008 Short Fiction Architectural Constants Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #2
March 2009 40 Short Fiction The Unstrung Zither The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2009
April 2009 82 Short Fiction The Fourth Horseman Electric Velocipede, Spring 2009
August 2009 116 Short Fiction The Bones of Giants The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August-September 2009
October 2009 Short Fiction The Pirate Captain's Daughter Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #27
April 2010 Short Fiction Between Two Dragons Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2010
July 2010 Short Fiction The Territorialist Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #47
August 2010 Poem Thrice Strange Horizons, 23 August 2010
September 2010 |2.5 Interview Author Spotlight: Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed, September 2010) Lightspeed, September 2010
September 2010 |1 Short Fiction Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain Lightspeed, September 2010
December 2010 Poem Art Lessons Stone Telling, December 2010
December 2010 Interview Stone Telling Roundtable: Preservation, Survival, Support Stone Telling, December 2010
December 2010 Short Fiction The Winged City Giganotosaurus, December 1, 2010
2011 |6 Poem Stardrive The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2011
2011 |7 Poem Tuning The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2011
January 2011 Short Fiction Ghostweight Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2011
August 2011 Short Fiction A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel Tor.com, August 10, 2011
August 2011 Short Fiction Conservation of Shadows Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2011
September 2011 Poem Immigrants Stone Telling, September 2011
March 2012 Interview Author Interview with Yoon Ha Lee Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #91
March 2012 Short Fiction The Book of Locked Doors Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #91
October 2012 Short Fiction The Battle of Candle Arc Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2012
December 2012 |9 Short Fiction Swanwatch Lightspeed, December 2012
January 2013 Short Fiction Effigy Nights Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2013
May 2013 Interview Assassinating the Reader: A Conversation with Yoon Ha Lee Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2013
July 2013 Review Conservation of Shadows Strange Horizons, 1 July 2013
August 2013 |18 Interview Author Spotlight: Yoon Ha Lee Lightspeed, August 2013
August 2013 |1 Short Fiction The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars Lightspeed, August 2013
October 2013 Poem Foxfeast Mythic Delirium, Issue 0.2, October-December 2013
January 2014 Short Fiction Wine Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2014
February 2014 15 Review Conservation of Shadows Locus, #637 February 2014
March 2014 Short Fiction The Bonedrake's Penance Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #143
June 2014 Short Fiction Combustion Hour Tor.com, June 18, 2014
July 2014 Short Fiction The Contemporary Foxwife Clarkesworld Magazine, July 2014
September 2014 Poem Sea-Sweet Strange Horizons, 8 September 2014
September 2014 68 Interview Yoon Ha Lee: Axioms & Theorems Locus, #644 September 2014
January 2015 30 Short Fiction The Queen's Aviary Daily Science Fiction, January 2015
May 2015 |3 Short Fiction Two to Leave Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #174
June 2015 4 Short Fiction Apocalypse Foxes Daily Science Fiction, June 2015
July 2015 60 Short Fiction Snakes Clarkesworld, July 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
October 2015 |0.5 Interior Art Not One of Us, October 2015 Not One of Us, October 2015
October 2015 |12 Short Fiction The Old Road Not One of Us, October 2015
October 2015 Short Fiction Variations on an Apple Tor.com, October 14, 2015
November 2015 |10 Short Fiction Interlingua Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2015
November 2015 |15 Interview Interview with Yoon Ha Lee Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2015
March 2016 |1 Short Fiction Foxfire, Foxfire Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #194
May 2016 |3 Short Fiction Shadow's Weave Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #200
June 2016 |3 Review Ninefox Gambit The Book Smugglers' Quarterly Almanac, June 2016
July 2016 |2 Essay Open Book, Insert Self Strange Horizons, 11 July 2016
September 2016 |9 Essay Fruitcakes and Gimchi in SPAACE The Book Smugglers' Quarterly Almanac, September 2016
September 2016 |4 Review Ninefox Gambit Strange Horizons, 5 September 2016
January 2017 201 Review Ninefox Gambit Asimov's Science Fiction, January-February 2017
February 2017 Short Fiction Extracurricular Activities Tor.com, February 15, 2017
June 2017 |15 Interview Interview: Yoon Ha Lee Lightspeed, June 2017
June 2017 |10 Short Fiction Iseul's Lexicon Lightspeed, June 2017
June 2017 63 Review Raven Stratagem Locus, #677 June 2017
June 2017 Review Raven Stratagem Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2017
July 2017 |3.1 Review Ninefox Gambit Strange Horizons, 24 July 2017
July 2017 |4 Review Raven Stratagem Strange Horizons, 3 July 2017
November 2017 88 Review Raven Stratagem Interzone, November-December 2017
January 2018 |2 Short Fiction Obscura Strange Horizons, 29 January 2018
February 2018 Short Fiction The Starship and the Temple Cat Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #244
June 2018 17 Review Revenant Gun Locus, #689 June 2018
July 2018 |3 Review Revenant Gun Strange Horizons, 2 July 2018
July 2018 82 Review Revenant Gun Interzone, July-August 2018
July 2018 Short Fiction The Cold Inequalities Forever, July 2018
September 2018 175 Short Fiction The Coin of Heart's Desire Lightspeed, September 2018
December 2018 |10 Short Fiction The Chameleon's Gloves StarShipSofa, No 568
2019 |8 Short Fiction The Graphology of Hemorrhage Unreal Magazine, Vol. 2
February 2019 18 Review Dragon Pearl The New York Times Book Review, February 17, 2019
June 2019 |1 Short Fiction Warhosts Lightspeed, June 2019
July 2019 Interview Fractal Universes, Serialized Novels, and a Cat Clarkesworld, July 2019
July 2019 |3.1 Review Revenant Gun Strange Horizons, 15 July 2019
November 2019 |17 Interview Author Spotlight: Yoon Ha Lee Lightspeed, November 2019
November 2019 |4 Short Fiction The Second-Last Client Lightspeed, November 2019
December 2019 |3 Review Hexarchate Stories Strange Horizons, 2 December 2019
February 2020 |1 Short Fiction The Mermaid Astronaut Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #298
April 2020 |3 Short Fiction Always the Harvest Lightspeed, April 2020
May 2020 |1 Short Fiction Beyond the Dragon's Gate Tor.com, May 20 2020
January 2021 |2.05 Review The Starship and the Temple Cat Strange Horizons, 25 January 2021
February 2021 |4 Review Phoenix Extravagant Strange Horizons, 15 February 2021
March 2021 |5 Short Fiction The Empty Gun Lightspeed, March 2021
July 2021 |10 Review Phoenix Extravagant Shoreline of Infinity, July 2021
February 2022 Short Fiction Bonsai Starships Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #349
April 2023 Short Fiction Counting Casualties Tor.com, April 26, 2023
February 2025 |13 Review Moonstorm Interzone, February 2025
July 2025 Short Fiction Nonstandard Candles Cast of Wonders, 16 July 2025

While still in college, he sold his short story "The Hundredth Question" to Fantasy & Science Fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed. He lives in Louisiana with his husband and daughter.
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October 2015 Not One of Us, October 2015 Not One of Us, October 2015