Joey Yu is an award-winning bilingual fantasy and sci-fi author, and co-author of the non-fiction book Platform Strategy, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in Asia. He is a contracted English short story writer for League of Legends’s canon universe. His Mandarin novel The Mirrored Truth was a runner-up for the Kadokawa fiction award, while his Mandarin novella The Locus received the Taiwan Fantasy Foundation award of excellence. In 2018, Yu received George R. R. Martin’s inaugural Terran Award, which funded his participation in the Taos Toolbox master writing class led by Hugo Award winner Nancy Kress. As an English-language screenwriter, Yu was a quarter-finalist at the Austin Film Festival and the Page Awards, and a finalist at the Creative World Awards.