Ana Huang is a Chinese-American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and new adult fiction genres. She is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.
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. Later, Huang wrote as a hobby and posted fiction on Wattpad. She states that "I wrote my first novel when I was 15, and I uploaded it when I was maybe 18."
Huang studied international relations in college, and during college, studied abroad in China, as a foreign exchange student in Shanghai.
Huang worked in press relations at a geopolitical consulting company.
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.
In 2022, Huang was featured in Cosmopolitan, and in 2023, Elle magazine India, and Good Morning America.
In 2023, her novel King of Greed reached #1 on the Paperback Trade Fiction section of The New York Times Best Seller list. King of Sloth was a #1 New York Times Best Seller, and reached #1 on the USA Today Booklist. Twisted Love stayed on the Paperback Trade Fiction section of The New York Times Best Seller list for 61 weeks.
In 2024, Huang, with 1,474,194 print copies sold, is the fourth highest selling BookTok author.
Huang uses "alpha readers" to fact check topics involved in the telling of her stories.