Ken Liu's short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, Nature, Strange Horizons, Empire of Dreams and Miracles (Card and Olexa, eds.), Writers of the Future Vol. 19, Polyphony 4 (Layne and Lake, eds.), Thoughtcrime Experiments (Harihareswara and Richardson, eds.), and The Dragon and the Stars (Mak and Choi, eds.), among other places. "The Algorithms for Love" appeared in The Year's Best SF 10 (Hartwell & Cramer, eds.). "You'll Always Have the Burden With You" appeared earlier this year in In Situ from Dagan Books.

He lives in Massachusetts with his wife Lisa and their daughter.