JY Yang was born July 12, 1983 in Singapore. They studied molecular biology and worked as a research scientist before becoming a writer for animation and game studios, and they also worked in journalism and as a science communicator for Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research. Yang began publishing stories in the small press in 2011 with “Captain Bells and The Sovereign State of Discordia” in The Steampowered Globe,
