Frank Wu

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Wu's cover for Talebones magazine, issue 28
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Wu's cover for Talebones magazine, issue 28

Frank Wu is a science fiction and fantasy artist living in Palo Alto. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 2004 and 2006; he was previously nominated in 2002 and 2003. He also won the Grand Prize (the Gold Award) in the Illustrators of the Future contest in 2002.

He works in many media, including acrylic and digital painting. He created a portrait of a Klingon girl for the documentary about the Klingon language, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water.

In addition to being an artist, Dr. Wu holds a Ph.D. in bacterial genetics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, though his dayjob is in patent law. He is also a member of BASFA, the Bay Area Science Fiction Association.

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