Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer known for his highly acclaimed short fiction. His work has received numerous major awards, including four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. Chiang has published two short story collections: Stories of Your Life and Others in 2002 and Exhalation: Stories in 2019. His short story "Story of Your Life" gained wider recognition when it was adapted into the science fiction film Arrival in 2016. Beyond fiction, Chiang is a frequent contributor of non-fiction essays to the New Yorker, where he writes on topics related to computing and artificial intelligence. He served as an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame from 2020 to 2021.