Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hǎo Jǐngfāng; born 27 July 1984) is a Chinese science fiction writer.^[1] She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards.^[1]

Hao Jingfang was born in Tianjin, on July 27, 1984. After high school, she studied, then worked, at Tsinghua University, in the area of physics.^[2] After noticing the economic inequality of China, she studied economics in Tsinghua University, obtained a doctoral degree in 2013, and worked as a researcher at China Development Research Foundation since then.

In 2002, as a high school student, she won the first prize at the 4th national high school "New Concept" writing competition (新概念作文大赛).^[3] In 2016, she won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her work Folding Beijing.^[4] She became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award.^[5]

Vagabonds was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award.^[6]

Hao is married and has a daughter.^[3]