SenLinYu (she/they) is a biracial Asian-American who grew up in the Pacific Northwest and studied Classical Liberal Arts and Culture. They started writing fanfiction in the Notes app of their phone during their baby's nap time, eventually rising to international prominence on Archive of Our Own. Their collected online works have garnered nearly 16 million individual downloads and have been translated into 19 languages. They live in Portland with their family. ALCHEMISED is their first novel.