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Xiran Jay Zhao

About

I’m a 20-something first-gen immigrant from small-town China who was raised by the Internet. I graduated from Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University with a biochemical disease research degree, but because I got dumped out at the height of the first COVID wave and couldn’t go hunting for jobs actually related to my studies, I wrote books and spewed my opinions about various media on the Internet instead, and now I’m a YouTuber and ?? #1 New York Times bestselling author ?? What even

Anyway the books I write are mostly sci-fi & fantasy and rooted deeply in Chinese history and mythology. You can check out more about them using the tabs on this website. For a more “proper” bio about me, the kind written pretentiously in third person, please go to my Press Kit.

(This is the picture that’s in my site icon, by the way:)