Han Song works as a journalist with Xinhua News Agency and is one of China's leading science fiction writers. A native of Chongqing, Han earned an MA in journalism from Wuhan University. He began writing in 1982 and has since published numerous volumes of fiction and essays. His novels include The Red Sea, Red Star over America, the Rails trilogy (Subway, High-Speed Rail, and Orbits), and the Hospital trilogy (Hospital, Exorcism, and Dead Souls), which has been described as a new landmark in dystopian fiction. Han is a six-time winner of the Chinese Galaxy Award for fiction and a repeat recipient of the Xingyun Award. His short fiction has appeared in the collections Broken Stars and The Reincarnated Giant, as well as in the anthology Exploring Dark Short Fiction: A Primer to Han Song. An avid reader and traveler, the author has spent time in both the Antarctic and the Arctic. He's even searched for bigfoot in the forests of central China.