Hao Jingfang is a Chinese author born on July 27, 1984 in Tianjin, China. She studied and worked in physics at the Tsinghua University. Later her interests turned to economics and earned a doctoral degree in economics. She currently works as an economic researcher at China Development Research Foundation. She has continued to develop her writing since high school, from winning the 2002 first prize at the 4th national high school "New Concept" writing competition, to winning the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her work Folding Beijing.