“A Sweet Calling” in Clarkesworld #44 is my tribute to the vanishing art of candy blowing, which has been seen in the streets of China since the Tang Dynasty.
Watch a modern Tangren at work:
F&SF writer and linguist. Winner, 2015 Aurora Award for Best English Poem/Song.Also 2015 Aurora Awards finalist, Best English Short Fiction; former finalist, 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; finalist, 2008 Aurora Award, "Best Short-Form Work in English"; Second Place winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (volume XXIII).
Tony Pi, F&SF Writer 