I am SO excited to be part of Flights of Foundry, Dream Foundry’s SFF convention 2020! The schedule just went live and it looks absolutely epic, with Hugo/Nebula winners across the slate including people I greatly admire like Ken Liu and Becky Chambers in the lineup. I’ll be reading from Read more…
Longtime friend and imaginary NPR interviewee/interviewer Okechukwu Iweala has just given me a shoutout at the Washington DC-based podcast The Guestbook Podcast. Best new year’s present ever. Thanks Oke!
Twenty Poems to Round Out the Year by Judith Huang The white wings beyond the cracks for Nii Addo The white wings beyond the cracks In the world’s pearl Like a shell that cups The bloodrush of the ear Is making us into the beating Heart outside air And you Read more…
Dear readers, Thanks so much for your support! Sofia and the Utopia Machine sold out its first print run in record time in six months and is going into its second printing with a handsome second edition, and we’ll be taking orders for it. Here is the google form for Read more…
Hey guys! I got interviewed by Harvardwood! Looks like I’ll get to LALALAND sometime 😉 Nathan Clarke actually did a verbal interview with me here in Australia, and it’s a sound file here: https://soundcloud.com/user-62215966-320910073/harvardwood-interview-with-judith-huang-nathan-clarke And the full transcript is available as a word document if you email me.
26 07 2010 “Learning is perhaps the only pleasure that might replace increasing consumption as our chosen mode of enriching experience. Someday, the joy of recognizing a pattern in a leaf or the geological strata in a cliff face might replace the satisfactions of new carpeting or more horsepower in Read more…
MOONING When will the moon shine like this again? I lift my wine cup, questioning the heavens. Who knows – in the palace of the sky, time is kept, and told differently… I want to glide back home on the wind, but the high jade turrets, the cold’s fierce clutch Read more…
Lovesong for a Calligrapher there is a boy, his fist a clump of lotus stalks gathered, and – an impulse – dipped in ink. I imagine the pond, sudden, stir – clear beads shaken, the water runs to ink the lotus buds to brush a tentative stroke and then another, Read more…
It’s 2018, and Kevin Kwan’s Austenesque novel Crazy Rich Asians is now a summer movie blockbuster, launching a thousand op-eds about representation. But the book is not about race, it is about the impenetrability of class. Like Pride and Prejudice, it is about an intelligent, ambivalent young woman landing the Read more…