Stories

Forthcoming

“The Octopus Dreams of Personhood,” Diabolical Plots
^{A girl lets an octopus experience being a person.}

2024

“Everything in the Garden Is Lovely,” Apex Magazine
^{A woman gets sentenced to transform into a garden.}
^✩ ^{Recommended in Reactor’s “Must-Read Short Speculative Fiction”}

2023

“Bird-Girl Builds a Machine,” Clarkesworld Magazine
^{A girl helps her mother build a mysterious machine.}
^✩ ^{Locus Recommended Reading List}
^{✩ Anthologized in The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time}

2022

“A Girl of Nails and Teeth,” Nightmare Magazine
^{A mother meticulously collects her daughter’s fingernail clippings.}
^{✩ Selected as a Notable Story in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy}
^{✩ Recommended in Book Riot’s “20 Must-Read Horror Short Stories“}

”Inheritance,” Analog Science Fiction
^{Two sisters disagree over who should inherit their dying mother’s memories.}
^✩ ^{Locus Award Finalist}
^{✩ Anthologized in Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth}

“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy,” Apex Magazine
^{A monster-slayer’s son meets a monster identical to himself.}
^{✩ Locus Award Finalist}
^{✩ Anthologized in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror}

“How to Make a Man Love You,” Fantasy Magazine
^{A man realizes his marriage hinges on a dark secret.}
^{✩ Selected as a Notable Story in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy}

“Vocabulary Lesson,” The Bureau Dispatch
^{An immigrant mother watches her son study for his vocabulary test.}

2021

“Eating Bitterness,” The Dark Magazine
^{A girl grows up in a world where all women are born with two mouths.}
^{✩ Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Finalist}
^{✩ Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List}

“So We Did,” Daily Science Fiction
^{The gods give us orders, and we obey.}

“A Selkie’s Tale,” TulipTree Review
^{A woman trapped in the modern world yearns for the ocean.}

Interviews

Author Spotlight: Hannah Yang by Phoebe Barton, Fantasy Magazine (2022)

Interview with Author Hannah Yang by Andrea Johnson, Apex Magazine (2022)