Gu Shi is a speculative fiction writer and senior urban planner. She has been working as a researcher at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design since 2012. Her short fiction works have won two Yinhe Awards and three Xingyun Awards. She published her first story collection Möbius Continuum in 2020. Her stories have been translated into English and published in Clarkesworld and Xprize’s Sci-fi Ocean Anthology.