Ted Chiang is the author of the Locus Award-winning collection Stories of Your Life and Others (Pan Macmillan, 2004). His short fiction has won the Hugo ("Hell Is the Absence of God"), Nebula ("Tower of Babylon," "Story of Your Life," "Hell Is the Absence of God," "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"), Sidewise ("Seventy-Two Letters"), and Sturgeon ("Story of Your Life") Awards. Ted lives outside of Seattle, Washington with his partner Marcia Glover.