Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang
Chiang in Madrid, Spain, 2011
Born	1967 (age 49–50) Port Jefferson, New York
Occupation	Fiction writer, technical writer
Nationality	American
Period	1990–present
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Notable works	Tower of Babylon (1990) Story of Your Life (1998) Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠).

His work has (as of 2013^[update]) won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and four Locus awards.

Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York. Both of his parents were born in China, but immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States. He graduated from Brown University with a computer science degree and in 1989 graduated from the Clarion Writers Workshop. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle.

Critic John Clute has written that Chiang's writing has a "tight-hewn and lucid style ... [which] has a magnetic effect on the reader."

Although not prolific, having published only fifteen short stories, novelettes, and novellas as of 2015^[update], Chiang has won a string of prestigious science fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990); the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992; a Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award for "Story of Your Life" (1998); a Sidewise Award for "Seventy-Two Letters" (2000); a Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Hugo Award for his novelette Hell Is the Absence of God (2002); a Nebula and Hugo Award for his novelette "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007); a British Science Fiction Association Award, a Locus Award, and the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Exhalation" (2009); and a Hugo Award and Locus Award for his novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects (2010).