Lady Business

'One thing that has always bugged me for the longest time is the near-complete lack of Asian fantasy authors.'

While there absolutely are less Asian fantasy authors (for the sake of this comment let's say novelists) published each year than white fantasy authors I think this comment is kind of an off-shoot of what Renay is talking about in this post. These authors are out there as the comments show. And all the names people have listed already are names I've seen well circulated in my particular internet or real life tide pools. A bit like with women in SFF, we can kind of end up falling back on default 'where are they' assumptions and conversations about Asian (and other chromatic) authors in SFF when really the authors are there it's just that we're not seeing them.

And now to add more names of Asian fantasy authors you could check out :) Some of these I love, some aren't for me but might be just your thing:

Julie Kagawa
Larisa Lai
Andrew Fukada
Hiromi Goto
Gene Luen Yang
Kimberley Pauley
Natasha Ngan
Karen Mahoney

Also, Su Tong wrote an entry in the Canongate myths series but is mostly a realistic novelist I think.

Happy investigating :)