Ash Huang

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THE SECRET LIVES OF IMMORTALS (Orbit/Redhook, 2027) • Three pep talks in a trench coat • LCRW, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone • Editor at Orion's Belt • Rep: @hel-no-wai.bsky.social • ashsmash.com

Ash Huang’s Worldcon 2026 panels: Rewriting History: the art and ethics of alternate timelines; Friday Aug 28 at 19:30 Purple vs Windowpane Prose: navigating between two extremes; Saturday Aug 29 at 9:00
Saturday, July 11, 12pm EST, Envision Enliven. V.M. Ayala, Stephen Granades, me (Ash Huang), P.H. Low, K.M. Veohongs!
Screenshot of the bookseller’s announcement of my forthcoming novel, The Secret Lives of Immortals
A promo graphic for a live reading at Story Hour, December 10 at 7pm, with Dee Holloway and me, Ash Huang
Holding a hardback edition of Catherine Yu’s THE DEVIL’S IN THE DANCERS which features a spotlight on three ballet dancers with two ominous clawed shadows
A paperback copy of Simon Jimenez’s The Spear Cuts Through Water on a wooden table
Headshot posed looking off to the side holding purple flowers in a dark outfit
A knit orange pouch in the sunlight, held by a hand with chartreuse nail polish. Pattern is Grapefruit Pouch by Yunique Crafts
ARC of Amplitudes, an anthology featuring stories of queer and trans futurity!
A notebook on the table (sorry for the crumbs) dated Jan 31. It says, ‘It’s still January?? Jesus lol.’
a blurred out version of the previous screenshot, to emulate squinting
an abstract and mysterious pink on purple gradient shape https://unsplash.com/photos/purple-and-white-heart-illustration-nY14Fs8pxT8
An electric looking magical ball thing from https://unsplash.com/photos/multicolored-plasma-ball-in-dim-light-room-_l4yffWjgt4
The cover of Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of Beowulf, held in a lap. A red blackletter b intertwined with a monochrome serpent dragon on an electric blue background.
A Superior Knot: Lightspeed Magazine “Do it. The last words she spoke before we cinched the green ribbon around her neck, a stark line bisecting her head from her body, a scrap we’d buried to gather magic under the mother tree.” If you like: fairy tale retellings, women with swords, hashtag workingwhilefeminine
The opening page of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which was published in 1993 and takes place in a speculative 2024. The book sits on a cork mat and there is a space printed mousepad and a bookmark from Christopher’s Books to the side.
Premee Mohamed’s Butcher of the Forest. The cover is a tapestry like illustration with woodland animals who have skulls for heads and tiny red fruit. The title is rendered in a thin semi serif.
A disembodied hand holding an advanced reader copy of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo. The cover is an oil slick rainbow effect AMPLITUDES on a black background with four pointed stars. It’s out from Erewhon on 5/27/25. Not pictured, Ash Huang’s screaming upon unwrapping the collection.
The Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw on top of The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
A word document that says THE END at 92,735 words
A yellow van with a precarious stack of ladders tied to the roof, from a (safely stopped) driver’s point of view
A presenter setup for Character Driven Worldbuilding, including a laptop, external monitor and part of a ring light
A pair of vanilla socks with variegated yarn next to a bedside table
Sofia Samatar’s Opacities
Character driven worldbuilding with personality tests and tarot, September 27th, 1pm Eastern and 4pm Pacific US time. Construct worlds based on character personalities, not just the customs and evidence they leave behind. Whether you swerve from traditional ideas of worldbuilding (or keep a warren-like Notion that’s only missing tacks and red string), this presentation will discuss creating believable characters using personality archetypes, building worlds to illuminate those characters, and how to creating meaningful, airtight conflict, no matter the world size. With me! Ash Huang, winner of the 2022 Speculative Literature Foundation's Diverse Worlds Grant, and stories in Lightspeed, Apparition, and Orion's Belt.
An excerpt from the story, "Slipstream". "At eleven, I was growing soft under a throw blanket and forgetting my algebra homework at school. She was hiding from certain death under a pile of dirty restaurant linens, the shape of her life crystallizing before her."
A Julia Child rose in bloom, a soft yellow and orange rose on proudly thripless, black-spotless leaves (we had a fight last year so must brag)
Sighing wistfully under the covers of Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
A picture of this story in its paperback form. There is an audio version in the link!
Puffy clouds lit orange by the sunset, behind a green hill
A naturally lit Victoria sandwich with nice piping and some blueberries and strawberries on top. By Little Sweet Baker
A flat lay photo of Indeterminate Inflorescence by Ll Seong-book next to some timely misshapen decorative gourds
A word processor word count that reads 2,960 words
A stephania hayata plant with a few wallet sized leaves and a hand reaching in from the left touching one of the leaves
Selfie of me, a Chinese American woman with two toned glasses, holding my novel manuscript
A stack of about ~20 books, mostly speculative fiction
A screenshot of a new aura-filled website
A cute pink illustration of a rabbit holding a mace with a heart, subtitled, me coming to help you with your battles
Caudex Stephania hayata shapeshifting from this morning, straightening its stalk within hours as if mammal level sentient
A caudex stephania hayata with young growth in a white pot
A screenshot of Libby featuring the audiobook of The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A cherry tart slice from bon nene on a glossy white plate with a raw ceramic edge
A photo of A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I Lin