Henry Lien is an author of juvenile

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active since 2013.

Biography

Lien is originally from Taiwan and lives in Hollywood, California. He has been an attorney, a teacher at UCLA Extension, and an art dealer in Los Angeles, representing artists from the Americas and Eurasia. He has also served as president of the West Hollywood Fine Art Dealers' Association and on the board of the West Hollywood Avenues of Art and Design.Profile
on ''Interfictions Online''.Profile
at henrylien.com.

Literary career

Lien graduated from Clarion West in 2012. He is author of the Peasprout Chen middle grade fantasy series, published by

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. His fiction has appeared in various publications, including '' Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''

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'', '' The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', and '' Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet''. In addition to his fiction, Lien has served as arts editor for ''Interfictions Online''.

Awards

Lien was nominated for the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters," which also placed second in the 2014 Asimov's Reader's Poll. His "The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society" was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and ''Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword'' was nominated for the 2019

Andre Norton Award The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (formerly the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy) is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to the ...

Bibliography

Novels

;Peasprout Chen # ''Future Legend of Skate and Sword'' (2018) # ''Battle of Champions'' (2019)

Short fiction

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References

External links

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Interview at ''Lightspeed Magazine''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lien, Henry 1970 births Living people American speculative fiction writers Asimov's Science Fiction people Taiwanese children's writers