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Tiffany Chu is a Taiwanese American literary fantasy author of stories that aim to stab your heart out with a spoon. She has been called “the queen of angsty beauty,” and writes on evergreen themes of grief, belonging, and what it means to be human.

Her essays and short stories have been published by Open Secrets Magazine, Chicago Story Press, and San Diego Writers, Ink.

She is obsessed with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and reads it religiously every year. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two surviving children.

Tiffany writes a weekly newsletter where she shares literary nonfiction and fiction. To read more of her writing, subscribe at https://tiffanychu.org/ ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 258 ratings · 163 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Girl Made of Time 3.66 avg rating — 112 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Constellation of Forgotten Things by Tiffany Chu (Goodreads Author), Renley N. Chu (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 79 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melody of Your Heart: Stories of Love, Loss, and Soulmates by Renley N. Chu (Goodreads Author), Tiffany Chu (Goodreads Author) 4.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cryptic Clockwork: A Journey of Words Through Loss and Finding Hope by Renley N. Chu (Goodreads Author), Tiffany Chu (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Again, Before I Forget: A Memoir by Renley Nicolas Chu, Tiffany Chu (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Constant Equation: A Short Story by Renley N. Chu (Goodreads Author), Tiffany Chu (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Palette of Vengeance: A Short Story 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Equinox: A Short Story 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Untangling: Volume 2: Essays it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Untangling: Essays on Breaking Apart and the Spaces Between really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Constellation of Forgotten Things Kickstarter is live!

It’s live.

The Kickstarter for The Constellation of Forgotten Things—the book I made with my late son Renley—is open today. Five years after I made him a promise. Five years after the first edition came out three months too late for him to hold.

The next 48 hours matter more than any 48 hours that came before. Kickstarter’s algorithm decides in the first two days whether to surface a project to wide Read more of this blog post »

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This book is partially a tribute to my son, Renley Chu, and the magical world we envisioned together. Before Ren died, one of the notes he left behind said he hoped I would finish and publish our anthology...and live. Through tremendous pain and grief ...more
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What I liked Something you'll never say about Ai Jiang is that she lacks imagination. It is so vivid, her worldbuilding so vast—when I read Ai Jiang, I know I'm getting a rich world with concepts and ideas I've never read anywhere else. In An Empire i ...more
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This book is partially a tribute to my son, Renley Chu, and the magical world we envisioned together. Before Ren died, one of the notes he left behind said he hoped I would finish and publish our anthology...and live. Through tremendous pain and grief ...more
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This book is partially a tribute to my son, Renley Chu, and the magical world we envisioned together. Before Ren died, one of the notes he left behind said he hoped I would finish and publish our anthology...and live. Through tremendous pain and grief ...more
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