Mia Tsai is a Taiwanese American author of speculative fiction, including Bitter Medicine and The Memory Hunters. An editor at GigaNotoSaurus, a 2024 Hugo Finalist for Best Semi-pro Zine, she is also a musician, teacher, and erstwhile photographer who earned her bachelors of humanities and arts in music and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and her masters of music in piano pedagogy at Georgia State University. She lives in Atlanta with her family, and, when not writing, is a hype woman for her orchids and devoted cat gopher. She can be found online at MiaTsai.com and @mia.tsai.books on Instagram and Tiktok.