E. 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 and the World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction. On July 27, 2019, she released the short story "Zero in Babel". Her debut novel, On Fragile Waves, was published in February 2021 by Erewhon Books. The novel was named a finalist for the 2022 Crawford Award presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. 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.
