Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel: An Arcane History , as well as the forthcoming Yellowface . A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages ​​and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Chinese literature, and Asian American literature.