Henry Lien is an author of juvenile speculative fiction active since 2013.[1]

Henry Lien
Born1970
Taiwan
OccupationAuthor
Genrespeculative fiction
Website
henrylien.com

Biography

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Lien is originally from Taiwan and lives in Hollywood, California. He has been an attorney, a teacher at UCLA Extension, and an art dealer in Los Angeles, representing artists from the Americas and Eurasia. He has also served as president of the West Hollywood Fine Art Dealers' Association and on the board of the West Hollywood Avenues of Art and Design.[2][3]

Literary career

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Lien graduated from Clarion West in 2012. He is author of the Peasprout Chen middle grade fantasy series, published by Henry Holt and Company. His fiction has appeared in various publications, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. In addition to his fiction, Lien has served as arts editor for Interfictions Online.[2]

Awards

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Lien was nominated for the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters," which also placed second in the 2014 Asimov's Reader's Poll. His "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society" was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword was nominated for the 2019 Andre Norton Award.[1]

Bibliography

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Novels

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Peasprout Chen
  1. Future Legend of Skate and Sword (2018)
  2. Battle of Champions (2019)

Short fiction

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Stories[a]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters 2013
The Great Leap of Shin 2015
Bilingual 2015
The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society 2015 Lien, Henry (June 2015). "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (6): 32–47. Novelette
The Shadow You Cast Is Me 2015

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Notes
  1. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.

References

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  1. ^ a b Henry Lien at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ a b Profile on Interfictions Online.
  3. ^ Profile at henrylien.com.
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