Lydia Kang is an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and an award-winning and bestselling author of adult fiction, young adult fiction, and science non-fiction, including Opium and Absinthe, Star Wars: Cataclysm, The November Girl, and Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything.
She’s spent a third of her life in her native Baltimore, a third in New York City, and now calls Omaha, Nebraska home along with her husband, assistant editors (her two dogs), and three kids.