This chapter profiles Dr. Lydia Kang, an internal medicine physician and author who bridges medical expertise with fiction spanning young adult science fiction, adult historical mysteries, and Star Wars novels. After graduating from Columbia University (1989–1993) and NYU Grossman School of Medicine (1998), she completed internal medicine residency at NYU Langone Health/Bellevue Hospital and served as Chief Resident from 2001 to 2002 (Kang L. Lydia Kang [Official website]. https://lydiakang.com/ , n.d.; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Lydia Kang, MD. Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Profile. https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/divisions/gim/faculty/kang.html , n.d.). Dr. Kang founded NYU’s inpatient Palliative Care consultation service before joining University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2006, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine (Kang L. Lydia Kang [Official website]. https://lydiakang.com/ , n.d.; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Lydia Kang, MD. Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Profile. https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/divisions/gim/faculty/kang.html , n.d.; McGoogan Library News, Miracle to menace: a conversation with Dr. Lydia Kang. https://blog.unmc.edu/library/2024/10/24/miracle-to-menace-a-conversation-with-dr-lydia-kang/ , 2024, October 24; Hachette Speakers Bureau, Dr. Lydia Kang. https://hachettespeakersbureau.com/dr-lydia-kang/ , n.d.). Her fiction debut “Control” (2013) launched a career producing approximately 12 books across multiple genres (Kang L. Lydia Kang [Official website]. https://lydiakang.com/ , n.d.; Kang, Control. Dial Books, 2013; Kang, Catalyst. Dial Books, 2015; Kang, The November girl. Entangled Publishing, 2017; Kang, A beautiful poison. Lake Union Publishing, 2017; Kang, Toxic. Entangled Publishing, 2018; Kang, The impossible girl. Lake Union Publishing, 2018; Kang, Opium and absinthe. Lake Union Publishing, 2020; Kang, The half-life of ruby fielding. Lake Union Publishing, 2022; Kang and Pedersen, Quackery: a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything. Workman Publishing, 2017; Kang and Pedersen, Patient zero: a curious history of the world’s worst diseases. Workman Publishing, 2021; Kang and Pedersen, Pseudoscience: an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them. Workman/Hachette, 2025; Kang, Cataclysm (Star Wars: The High Republic). Random House Worlds, 2023). Her adult historical fiction, including “A Beautiful Poison” (2017) and “Opium and Absinthe” (2020), combines meticulous medical research with mystery (Kang L. Lydia Kang [Official website]. https://lydiakang.com/ , n.d.; Kang, A beautiful poison. Lake Union Publishing, 2017; Kang, Opium and absinthe. Lake Union Publishing, 2020). Co-authored nonfiction works with Nate Pedersen—“Quackery” (2017), “Patient Zero” (2021), and “Pseudoscience” (2025)—received critical acclaim including Science Friday Best Science Book recognition and Nebraska Book Awards (Kang L. Lydia Kang [Official website]. https://lydiakang.com/ , n.d.; Kang and Pedersen, Quackery: a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything. Workman Publishing, 2017; Kang and Pedersen, Patient zero: a curious history of the world’s worst diseases. Workman Publishing, 2021; Kang and Pedersen, Pseudoscience: an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them. Workman/Hachette, 2025). Dr. Kang most recently published “Cataclysm” (2023) in the Star Wars High Republic series and currently advises numerous authors on medical accuracy in fiction (Kang L. Lydia Kang [Official website]. https://lydiakang.com/ , n.d.; Kang, Cataclysm (Star Wars: The High Republic). Random House Worlds, 2023).