Xia Jia was born in Xi'an in 1981. Nurtured in her childhood by the masterpieces of international (Asimov, Clarke, Dick) and Chinese science fiction (Ye Yonglie, Zheng Wenguang, Liu Cixin), she started writing as soon as he entered university. She completed a doctorate on the history of the science fiction genre in China in 2014. She now teaches at Xi'an Jiaotong University. Winner of numerous prizes, she is distinguished by her poetic writing, often melancholy and marked by a passion for the history of science.