E. Lily Yu

E. Lily Yu (Eugenia Lily Yu) is an American author. In 2012, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for her short story "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees"; the work was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story^[1] and the World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction.^[2]

On July 27, 2019, she released the short story "Zero in Babel".^[3]

Her debut novel, On Fragile Waves, was published in February 2021 by Erewhon Books.^[4] The novel was named a finalist for the 2022 Crawford Award presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.^[5]

Her work has also appeared in various venues such as McSweeney's, Boston Review, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year.

She attended Princeton University, graduating with an A.B. in 2012. Then she received an M.A. from Cornell^[6] with a thesis titled Unconquerable Monsters of the Imperial Periphery: Early Dinosaur Fiction, 1864-1912.^[7]

Awards

Year	Nominee	Award	Category	Result	Ref[8]
2012	"The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees"	Hugo Award	Short Story	Shortlisted
		Locus Award	Short Story	Nominated
		Nebula Award	Short Story	Shortlisted
		World Fantasy Award	Short Fiction	Shortlisted
		WSFA Press Award	—	Shortlisted
	—	John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer	—	Won
2014	"The Urashima Effect"	Theodore Sturgeon Award	—	Shortlisted
2021	On Fragile Waves	Endeavour Award	—	Shortlisted
2022		Crawford Award	—	Shortlisted
		Washington State Book Award	Fiction	Won
2023	Jewel Box	BSFA Award	Artwork	Shortlisted
		Los Angeles Times Book Prize	Ray Bradbury Prize	Shortlisted
2024		World Fantasy Award	Collection	Shortlisted

Bibliography

Novels

• On Fragile Waves (2021)

Collections

• Jewel Box (2023)

Short fiction

• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" (2012)
• "The Wretched and the Beautiful" (2017)
• "Zero in Babel" (2019)