Xia Jia

XIA JIA (AKA WANG YAO) is Professor and Head of the Chinese Literature Department at Xi ‘an Jiaotong University. So far she has published an academic collection in contemporary Chinese science fiction studies, as well as one novel and three collections of speculative fiction. Eight of her stories have won the Galaxy Award, China’s most prestigious science fiction award. Her first English collection A Summer Beyond Your Reach: Stories was published in 2020. She is also engaged in other science fiction related works, including translation, screenwriting, editing and creative writing teaching.