Their novelette, 'A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, Is Infinite Potential' was a top ten finalist for the 2021 Locus Award for Best Novelette. Their novelette, 'Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy' was a finalist for the 2020 Ignyte Award. Their novelette, 'Waiting on a Bright Moon' was a top ten finalist for the 2018 Locus Award for Best Novelette. Yang has published short fiction since 2012 in publications such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Apex Magazine and Strange Horizons. They have a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and were a member of the 2013 class of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. They legally changed their name to 'Neon' in 2020. Yang is non-binary and queer, and uses they pronouns. Their debut novel, The Genesis of Misery, the first book in The Nullvoid Chronicles, is scheduled for release in 2022 by Tor Books. The third Tensorate novella, The Descent of Monsters, was a finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ SF/F/Horror. The first Tensorate novella, The Black Tides of Heaven, was a finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award, Locus Award, Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Kitschie Award. Neon Yang, formerly JY Yang, is a Singaporean writer of English-language speculative fiction best known for the Tensorate series of novellas published by Tor.com.

The Ayam Curtain by J.Y. Yang