but who am i, really?
Neon Yang (they/them) is a queer non-binary author based in the uk. They have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Lambda Literary, ignyte and Locus awards, and their work has been an OTHERWISE AWARD honoree.
In previous incarnations, Neon was a molecular biologist, a science communicator, a writer for animation, games and comic studios, and a journalist for one of Singapore’s major papers.
Neon was a member of the 2013 class of Clarion West. In 2015 they were awarded a postgraduate scholarship from the National Arts Council of Singapore to read a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, Britain.
They are represented by DongWon Song of Howard Morhaim Literary.
To contact Neon, send them an email at contact@neonyang.com. Please use they/them pronouns and the Mx. honorific. Do note that this address is not continuously monitored and responses may take a while. If you are a publisher offering a business opportunity, please contact their agent at dongwon@morhaimliterary.com instead.
Neon is on Instagram as @itsneonyang.
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Please note: I am non-binary and use they/them pronouns (e.g. Their books were published last year; They like dinosaurs and succulent plants). If a honorific is required, it is Mx (Mx Neon Yang, Mx Neon, Mx Yang).
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25 words:
Neon Yang is the author of the award-nominated Tensorate series of novellas and the forthcoming novel, The Genesis of Misery (Tor Books, Fall 2022) . They live in the UK. http://neonyang.com
50 words:
Neon Yang is the Hugo-, Nebula- and WFA-nominated author of the Tensorate novellas from Tor.Com Publishing . They are queer, non-binary, and live in the UK. Their debut novel, The Genesis of Misery, is out from Tor Books in 2022. Find them on Instagram as @itsneonyang, and otherwise at http://neonyang.com.
100 words:
Neon Yang is the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.Com Publishing (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Descent of Monsters and The Ascent to Godhood). Their work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, Their debut novel, The Genesis of Misery, will be published by Tor in September 2022.
Neon is queer, non-binary, and lives in the UK. Find them on Instagram as @itsneonyang, and otherwise at http://neonyang.com.
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Neon Yang is the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.Com Publishing (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Descent of Monsters and The Ascent to Godhood) and the upcoming novel The Genesis of Misery, out from Tor in September 2022. Their work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Lambda Literary and Locus awards, while the Tensorate novellas were an Otherwise Award honoree in 2018. They have over two dozen works of short fiction published in venues including Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons.
Neon attended the 2013 class of Clarion West, and received their MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2016. In previous incarnations, they have been a molecular biologist, a writer for animation, comics and games, a science communicator, and a journalist for one of Singapore’s national papers Currently, they live in the United Kingdom. They are queer and non-binary. Find them on Instagram as @itsneonyang, and otherwise at http://neonyang.com.