E. Lily Yu is the award-winning author of the novel On Fragile Waves (Erewhon, 2021), selected for best-of-the-year lists by NPR, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly, and Jewel Box: Stories (forthcoming from Erewhon, 2023), collecting the best from over a decade of short stories published in venues from McSweeney's to Vice. She received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012 and the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017, and has been a finalist for every major award in science fiction and fantasy. She has been writing essays in her newsletter, The Paper Airplane, since 2020. Most recently, she wrote the libretto for the short opera Stars Between (2021), produced as part of Seattle Opera's Creation Lab. Lily received an A.B. in English literature from Princeton, along with a certificate in biophysics, and a M.A. from Cornell.
