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Jaymee Goh is a Malaysian-Chinese writer, reviewer, editor, and essayist of speculative fiction. Her work has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies, such as Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, and reprinted in LeVar Burton Reads and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Her reviews and nonfiction have appeared on Tor.com, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Strange Horizons. She co-edited The Sea Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (Rosarium 2015), and most recently edited the Strange Horizons Southest Asian Special Issue. A graduate from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in 2016, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside, where she dissertated in science fiction studies and critical race theory. She is an editor for Tachyon Publications.
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Jaymee Goh writes, reviews, and edits speculative fiction. Her work has been published in Science Fiction Studies, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. She is a graduate from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop and works for Tachyon Publications.
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Jaymee Goh is a Malaysian-Chinese writer, reviewer, editor, and essayist of speculative fiction. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature, and works for Tachyon Publications.
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Malaysian SFF writer, editor, and critic Jaymee Goh was born in Subang Jaya, Selangor. She writes short fiction, critical essays, reviews, the occasional poem, and even-more-occasional novels. She has been interviewed for ELLE Magazine Malaysia, the Asian America Press Blog, and BFM Radio Malaysia.
Her short stories have been published in magazines like Lightspeed Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and anthologies like the award-winning New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color. These short stories have also been reprinted in LeVar Burton Reads and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. She has written essays for Tor.com (now Reactor) and Strange Horizons, and she has reviewed for Science Fiction Studies and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
As an editor, Goh co-edited the critically acclaimed anthology The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (Rosarium Publishing, 2015) with Joyce Chng, and was invited to edit The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 11 (Aqueduct Press, 2017). She edited DON’T TOUCH THAT! A Sci-Fi and Fantasy Parenting Anthology and the Strange Horizons Southeast Asian Special Issue (2022). She also acquires and edits for San Francisco-based Tachyon Publications. Her acquisitions have gone on to be nominees, finalists, or winners for various awards; The Extractionist by Kimberly Unger won the Phillip K. Dick Award and Yoke of Stars by R.B. Lemberg won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
Jaymee Goh holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside, specialising in critical race theory and science fiction studies; her dissertation was on steampunk and whiteness. She was part of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop 2016 cohort in University of California, San Diego. She is on the Carl Brandon Society Steering Committee and was vice-president of the Malaysian Writers Society (2020-2024). She currently lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and trains her cat to do tricks in her free time.


