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Ai Jiang

Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award winner, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, Aurora, and BFSA Award finalist from Changle, Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario.

Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, The Masters Review, among others. She is the recipient of Odyssey Workshop's 2022 Fresh Voices Scholarship and the author of Linghun and I AM AI. The first book of her novella duology, A Palace Near the Wind, is Her next novel.

Awards: Nebula (2023), Stoker (2023) see all

Genres: Fantasy, Horror

New and upcoming books

April 2026

A River From the Sky
(Natural Engines, book 2)

September 2026

An Empire in the Clouds

Series

Natural Engines
1. A Palace Near the Wind (2025)
2. A River From the Sky (2026)

Novels

An Empire in the Clouds (2026)

Novellas and Short Stories

Linghun (2023)
I AM AI (2023)

Anthologies edited

Wilted Pages (2023) (with Christi Nogle)

Series contributed to

Tales From Between Presents
Ai Jiang's Smol Tales From Between Worlds (2023)

Books containing stories by Ai Jiang

Waterborne (2026)
edited by
Henry Herz

Howl (2025)
An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror
(Women in Horror Anthology)
edited by
Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M Wytovich

The Rack II (2025)
(Rack, book 2)
edited by
Tom Deady

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Awards

	2023 Nebula Award for Best Novella : Linghun
	2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction : Linghun

Award nominations

	2024 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Linghun
	2024 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : I AM AI
	2024 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : I AM AI
	2024 Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella (nominee) : I AM AI
	2024 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (nominee) : I AM AI
	2023 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : I AM AI
	2023 Locus Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Give Me English
	2023 BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction (nominee) : I AM AI
	2022 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Give Me English

Ai Jiang recommends

Jitterbug (2026)
Gareth L Powell
"Jitterbug is a thrilling journey filled with witty banter, unlikely allies and friendships, secrets and sacrifices, and found family, exploring the cyclical nature of both history and the future, and the way our fates are often shaped not just by choice but also by luck and coincidence."

The Apple and the Pearl (2026)
Rym Kechacha
"A mesmerizing performance both on and off stage. It is a tale liminal, magical, with an underlying melancholic lull, like a mourning ballad, an eulogy for both people and memories with a sinister creeping tugging at the thin veil casted over the lurking shadows. Hypnotic and haunting, The Apple and the Pearl interweaves the spiritual and musical, while illuminating the sacrifices necessary for art and theatre."

The Villa, Once Beloved (2025)
Victor Manibo
"The Villa, Once Beloved is a gothic, haunting tale of estrangement, dissecting the complexities of identity and diaspora, intergenerational trauma, and the helplessness of vicious cycles in a slow burn narrative bound together by chains of secrets buried and unearthed."

The Legend Liminal (2025)
Ren Hutchings
"The Legend Liminal traps its readers in time and space, where we, like the characters, are moving forward yet stuck in place-a melancholic meditation on grief and the inability to move on; of finding the purpose and meaning of existence; of travelling without knowing the destination."

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us (2025)
Yiming Ma
"Extraordinary. A melancholic mosaic of lives brilliantly bearing witness to the ways memories shape and reshape individuals, nations, histories and futures."

The Gryphon King (2025)
(Chaos Constellation, book 1)
Sara Omer
"The Gryphon King is intricate in its political intrigue, delightful in its conflict and tension, brilliant in the complexity of characters, and a wonderfully mythic story of love and sacrifice."

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes (2025)
Clay McLeod Chapman
"An eye-opening sociopolitical fever nightmare that you won't soon forget."

Coup De Grace (2024)
Sofia Ajram
"Coup de Grace is a novella woven with cold elegance like sea breeze drifting from the ocean at night through liminal spaces both seen but felt. It is breaths beckoning from deep within an endless tunnel underground with moments of unexpected humour and absurdity. And it is life, death, and hope's interwoven thoughts in poetry and refreshing experimentalism."

All the Hearts You Eat (2024)
Hailey Piper
"All the Hearts You Eat is filled with mesmerizing and breathless words that explore violent pleasures, painful desires, insatiable thirst, sacrifices in hopes of acceptance and belonging, scraping both across and under the skin with effortless lyricism-a novel with an alluring pull, like following a hypnotic trail, and by the time you notice how deep you've tread, it's already far too late."

Withered (2024)
A G A Wilmot
"Withered is a slow burn psychological horror that will consume its readers through its exploration of the toxicity and timelessness of grief and the way it chokes all those it touches. The time-paused town of Black Stone reveals to readers what it means to conquer death and what it means to be alive. Wilmot elegantly illuminates the power of art and its impact on identity and memory, while painting a vivid definition of a ghost town with their prose."

The Neverborn Thief (2024)
Andrew Najberg
"Equal parts dark portal fantasy, mystery, and adventure in the vein of Coraline, Tales of Earthsea, and Narnia. Najberg crafts a wonderful coming of age tale that explores the things we lose and gain with age, the burdens and responsibilities we must carry, where the Shadowlands is a metaphor for the murky navigations through adulthood and the lessons it holds: truths, lies, and the in-between. This book brings us on a journey of lessons and teachings through stories, of how to be resilient and remaining hopeful, knowing when to ask for help, and the lessons that we must learn alone. At its heart is a story of injustice, corruption, and the kind hearts that shine through it all."

This Wretched Valley (2024)
Jenny Kiefer
"This Wretched Valley is suspenseful, mysterious, and filled with racing adrenaline and paranoia. Jenny Kiefer calls us to question reality along with the novel's characters and haunts us with repeating pasts and rotting bones both refleshed and unfleshed."

The Vein (2023)
Steph Nelson
"Steph Nelson has offered us a narrative that is viciously addictive, with complex familial dynamics, where the allure of danger beckons the reader to its dark web."

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