Her fiction has appeared in *The New York Times*, *O. Henry Prizes: Stories*, *Glimmer Train*, *The Best American Short Stories*, and in 2012, *The New Yorker*.
Liu was born in China and grew up in both China and Canada. She studied at Tsinghua University and the University of British Columbia.
Liu co-founded the online community and print journal *The Fanzone*, which published 12 issues between 2003 and 2008. She has also worked as an editor at the *Columbia Journal of Literary Translation*.
Liu lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.
Works:
- *The Chinese Lady* (2008), (novel)
- *The Man Who Made Banana Splits* (2014), (novel)
- *Let's Talk About Love: New and Selected Stories* (2023), (short story collection)