Ana Huang

Huang is the daughter of Chinese expats. As a child, Huang's mother encouraged her to write stories as a way to practice English as a second language.^[5] Later, Huang wrote as a hobby and posted fiction on Wattpad.^[6] She states that "I wrote my first novel when I was 15, and I uploaded it when I was maybe 18."^[7]

Huang studied international relations in college,^[8] and during college, studied abroad in China,^[9] as a foreign exchange student in Shanghai.^[10]

Huang worked in press relations at a geopolitical consulting company.^[11]

After 2019, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Huang began writing and self-publishing novels, and promoting them on TikTok. Her Twisted series went viral, and was republished by Bloom Books in 2022.^[12]

In 2022, Huang was featured in Cosmopolitan,^[13] and in 2023, Elle magazine India,^[5] and Good Morning America.^[14]

In 2023, her novel King of Greed reached #1 on the Paperback Trade Fiction section of The New York Times Best Seller list.^[15] King of Sloth was a #1 New York Times Best Seller,^[3] and reached #1 on the USA Today Booklist.^[4] Twisted Love stayed on the Paperback Trade Fiction section of The New York Times Best Seller list for 61 weeks.^[16]

In 2024, Huang, with 1,474,194 print copies sold, is the fourth highest selling BookTok author.^[17]

Huang uses "alpha readers" to fact check topics involved in the telling of her stories.^[18][19]

• New adult fiction