![]() “We lived in West LA, in Mar Vista, and there was a comic store near my school in Culver City, so whenever I could persuade my mom to take me there, she would let me wander for an hour and then get a couple things. It turned out that what came out did usually have some speculative element. When I was first starting to write stuff, I didn’t think, ‘Oh, I want to be this kind of writer, or that kind.’ I just started writing whatever came out. I never thought about things in terms of genre. There were the books you had in school, and then there were the fun books the library had. “I read a little bit of Asimov and Bradbury, and I remember reading a bit of Piers Anthony for a while on the fantasy side – I don’t know what the divide is. It was a canvas bag, and I would just drag it around the house and fill it with books – so I was reading pretty early. My mom read novels at night sometimes when I was really young, and I remember dragging a book bag around from the time I was three or four – I had this little blue bag that said Arizona on it from some free giveaway. But I would just pick them up and look at them, so I guess I did grow up in a reading family. I never saw him reading them – I think they were mostly from grad school. “Growing up in LA, my dad had a lot of books on his shelves. Yu lives near Irvine CA with wife Michelle Jue and their children. His most recent work is SF story The Only Living Girl on Earth (2021). Yu’s eagerly anticipated follow-up, Interior Chinatown (2020), is a novel told in the form of a screenplay, and won the National Book Award for Fiction. His debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010), an ambitious literary work about time-travel and family, was widely acclaimed, and was a runner-up for both the Campbell Memorial Award and the Locus Award for First Novel. He guest edited The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (2017), invited by the series editor, John Joseph Adams. ![]() His first collection, Third Class Superhero (2006), includes genre work, as does follow-up Sorry Please Thank You (2012). ![]() Yu began publishing short fiction in literary magazines in the early 2000s, gradually expanding to SF anthologies. He went on to write for other shows (including Lodge 49 and Legion ), and continues to develop film and TV projects, including adaptations of his own fiction and original work. He worked as a lawyer until 2014, when he took a job writing for SF drama Westworld on HBO. He attended UC Berkeley, where he studied molecular and cell biology, graduating in 1997, and then went to Columbia Law School, earning his law degree in 2001. CHARLES CHOWKAI YU was born Januin Los Angeles CA. ![]()
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