Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese–English translator, and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy, and the #1 New York Times bestselling novels Babel and Yellowface. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
