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Ai Jiang

June 18, 1997 (age 28)

Birth place: Fujian, China

79 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
2021 Short Fiction House — Unpainted The Dread Machine - 2021
April 2021 |4 Short Fiction Hello The Dark, April 2021
September 2021 176 Short Fiction Jinli Yu Luna Station Quarterly, September 2021
September 2021 |4 Short Fiction Yǒngshí The Dark, September 2021
November 2021 |7 Poem Ascenkin's Roots Haven Speculative, November-December 2021
November 2021 |3 Essay Review of The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge by Yun Ji Strange Horizons, 1 November 2021
November 2021 |3 Short Fiction The Catcher in the Eye The Dark, November 2021
December 2021 |2 Short Fiction Missing Dolls Around the World The Dark, December 2021
2022 Poem A Mortal in Armour, Among Immortals Walking The Dread Machine - 2022
2022 Poem Lost The Dread Machine - 2022
2022 |7 Short Fiction On Land, We Drown Augur, Winter 2022
2022 Short Fiction What We Look for at the Night Market The Dread Machine - 2022
2022 Poem Where Are You Going? The Dread Machine - 2022
January 2022 |12.1 Review Missing Dolls Around the World Apex Magazine, January 2022
January 2022 11 Poem We Smoke Pollution Star*Line, Winter 2022
February 2022 |2 Short Fiction Tooth, Teeth, Tongue The Dark, February 2022
March 2022 35 Short Fiction Behind the Tree Tree and Stone, March 2022
April 2022 |20 Short Fiction Not This One Pyre Magazine, Spring-Summer 2022
April 2022 |3 Short Fiction Xiǎo Èmó—Little Demon The Dark, April 2022
May 2022 |11.5 Review Give Me English Haven Speculative, May-June 2022
May 2022 26 Short Fiction Give Me English The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2022
May 2022 |9 Short Fiction In Water, We Survive The Deadlands, May 2022
May 2022 12 Short Fiction New Fashion Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles, Summer 2022
May 2022 31 Short Fiction Return Policy Radon Journal, May 2022
May 2022 |6 Review Those Fantastic Lives Strange Horizons, 9 May 2022
June 2022 |1 Short Fiction Emotion: XXXX Simultaneous Times Podcast, June 2022
June 2022 Short Fiction For Viporis Flash Point SF, 17 June 2022
July 2022 33 Poem And to and By Star*Line, Summer 2022
July 2022 |1 Short Fiction Fisheyes The Dark, July 2022
August 2022 |4 Short Fiction A Sea of Grey Tales from Between, #1
August 2022 22 Short Fiction Come in, Children Hexagon, Fall 2022
August 2022 17 Short Fiction Hunger Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles, Fall 2022
November 2022 |20 Poem I Am a Little Hotel Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022
November 2022 |7 Poem The Lantern Festival Solarpunk Magazine, November-December 2022
December 2022 |1 Short Fiction Dreaming of Humancity All Worlds Wayfarer, December 21, 2022
December 2022 |6 Review Into the Riverlands Strange Horizons, 5 December 2022
December 2022 2 Interview Six-Pack Author Round-Up Space and Time, Fall-Winter 2022
January 2023 |4 Short Fiction We All Fall Down The Dark, January 2023
March 2023 |7 Interview Author Interview with Ai Jiang Solarpunk Magazine, March-April 2023
March 2023 |5 Review Full Immersion Strange Horizons, 20 March 2023
March 2023 |10 Short Fiction Yinying—Shadow Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2023
April 2023 13 Short Fiction Transfer House Penumbric, April 2023
April 2023 |8 Essay What Language Do You Think In?: On Being Lost in Translation Fantasy Magazine, April 2023
May 2023 17 Short Fiction Cover Your Eyes Planet Scumm, Spring 2023
May 2023 |4 Review Linghun Strange Horizons, 8 May 2023
June 2023 3 Interview From Many Points-of-View: An Interview with Ai Jiang Penumbric, June 2023
July 2023 |8.2 Interview Interview: Ai Jiang Fantasy Magazine, July 2023
July 2023 26 Poem The Mouth of the World Star*Line, Summer 2023
August 2023 |11 Short Fiction Under the Crescent Mountain, There Are Hayflowers Translunar Travelers Lounge, August 2023
September 2023 |17 Poem A Siren's Call, a Banshee's Wail, a Grandmother's Dream Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2023
September 2023 58 Short Fiction We Are a Little Hotel Interzone, Sep 2023
October 2023 1 Essay A Word from Our Editor (Apparition Literary Magazine, October 2023) Apparition Literary Magazine, October 2023
October 2023 Editor Apparition Literary Magazine - 2023 Apparition Literary Magazine, October 2023
October 2023 Short Fiction By a River in Fujian Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2023
October 2023 |2 Short Fiction Dancing with Etta PseudoPod, 24 October 2023
December 2023 |3 Poem Prim Pressed Posies The Deadlands, December 2023
December 2023 |2 Short Fiction The Sisters The Dark, December 2023
January 2024 |4 Short Fiction Of a Thousand Arms and More The Dark, January 2024
January 2024 |14 Poem We Drink Lava Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2024
February 2024 36 Poem Ship in a Bottle, Anchored Worlds of If, February 2024
March 2024 |3 Short Fiction A City Undying Haven Speculative, March 2024
March 2024 |4 Short Fiction Breathe, Blow, Burn The Dark, March 2024
March 2024 |11 Review Give Me English Haven Speculative, March 2024
March 2024 |6 Short Fiction Where the Grass is Always Whiter Interzone, March 2024
April 2024 |4 Short Fiction By a Doorstep That Never Receives You Small Wonders, April 2024
August 2024 |4 Short Fiction Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones The Dark, August 2024
October 2024 |1 Short Fiction Ashes Like Tea Leaves, Lava Like Honey Lightspeed, October 2024
October 2024 |13 Interview Author Spotlight: Ai Jiang Lightspeed, October 2024
November 2024 Short Fiction A Relationship in Four Haircuts PseudoPod, 8 November 2024
November 2024 |5 Short Fiction Ancestor Code Error Lightspeed, November 2024
November 2024 |16 Interview Author Spotlight: Ai Jiang Lightspeed, November 2024
January 2025 |11 Essay Homes to Remember and Forget Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2025
March 2025 |16 Poem the bud of a dead dream Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2025
April 2025 |11 Review A Palace Near the Wind Lightspeed, April 2025
April 2025 |19 Review A Palace Near the Wind Apex Magazine, April 2025
April 2025 |20 Interview Interview with Author Ai Jiang Apex Magazine, April 2025
April 2025 |2 Short Fiction Shadows Below Seaway Trains Apex Magazine, April 2025
April 2025 121 Interview Unreliable Characters: A Conversation with Ai Jiang Clarkesworld, April 2025
August 2025 29 Short Fiction Memories Are Only Valuable If They Can Be Lost Clarkesworld, August 2025

5 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2023 Collection Ai Jiang's Smol Tales from Between Worlds Ai Jiang
2023 Chapbook I Am AI Ai Jiang
2023 Chapbook Linghun Ai Jiang
2023 Anthology Wilted Pages Ai Jiang & Christi Nogle
2025 Chapbook A Palace Near the Wind Ai Jiang

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2023 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Linghun Winner
2023 British Science Fiction Award Best Shorter Fiction I Am AI Nominee
2023 Ignyte Award Best in Speculative Poetry We Smoke Pollution Winner
2023 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Give Me English Nominee
2023 Nebula Award Short Story Give Me English Nominee
2024 Hugo Award Best Novelette I Am AI Finalist
2024 Hugo Award Best Novella Linghun Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette I Am AI Runner-up
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Linghun Nominee
2024 Nebula Award Novelette I Am AI Nominee
2024 Nebula Award Novella Linghun Winner
2024 Prix Aurora Awards Best Novelette/Novella I Am AI Nominee
2024 Prix Aurora Awards Best Poem/Song – English A Siren's Call, a Banshee's Wail, a Grandmother's Dream Nominee
2025 Hugo Award Best Poem We Drink Lava Nominee

Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, an immigrant from Fujian, and an active member of HWA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in F&SF, The Dark, Dark Matter, Uncanny, PseudoPod, The Masters Review, Jellyfish Review, among others. Find her on Twitter (@AiJiang_) and online (http://aijiang.ca).
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