"Sometimes I think writing about scholars messing up their lives is just my happy place."
Rebecca F. Kuang (Traditional Chinese 匡靈秀, Simplified 匡灵秀) (b. May 29, 1996 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China), better known as R.F. Kuang, is a Chinese-American author specializing largely in Asian-inspired fantasy genre fiction.The Poppy War trilogy
- The Poppy War (2018)
- The Dragon Republic (2019)
- The Burning God (2020)
Stand-alone
- Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution (2022)
- Yellowface (2023)
Tropes that can be found in her works include:
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Her Poppy War trilogy focuses heavily on cultures modeled after traditional Far East civilizations, specifically China and Japan and who interact with a stand-in for the United States.
