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Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠). His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and four Locus awards. His short story, "Story of Your Life", was the basis of the film Arrival (2016).

Chiang was born in Port Jefferson, New York. Both of his parents were born in China and immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Chinese Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States. He graduated from Brown University with a computer science degree. He had been submitting stories to magazines since high school and after attending the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1989 he sold his first story, "The Tower Of Babylon" to the Omni science magazine.