Allison King is the author of The Phoenix Pencil Company (William Morrow, 2025) and the short story The Many Taste Grooves of the Chang Family (Diabolical Plots, 2022; LeVar Burton Reads, 2023). Her other short stories include Breath of the Dragon King (Fantasy Magazine, 2021; Year's Best Fantasy, Volume 1 ed. Paula Guran; Pyr, 2022), And Again, We Try (If There's Anyone Left, 2022), and Tina Yu and the Karaoke Time Machine (khōréō, 2023). Allison was a 2023 Reese's Book Club LitUp fellow. She is an Asian American writer and software engineer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts and can be found online at allisonjking.com.