Gu Shi is a speculative fiction writer and a senior urban planner. She has been working as a researcher at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design since 2012. Her short fiction has won two Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction and three Chinese Nebula (Xingyun) Awards. Her first story collection, Möbius Continuum, was published in 2020. Her stories have been translated in English and published in Clarkesworld and XPRIZE’s anthology, Current Futures.

S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and interprets between both coasts of the Pacific.