Lydia Kang is an American author of adult and young adult fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is also an internal medicine physician, and practices internal medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. Her most popular works include the 1899-era story Opium & Absinthe (2020), which entailed a story of a young woman from a rich New York family whose sister dies unexpectedly with bite wounds in her neck and sets out on a mission to find the killer, A Beautiful Poison (2017), which is a sequel of Opium & Absinthe, where a series of deaths during the Spanish flu pandemic becomes so spontaneous and close to the main character, Allene, that it prompts suspicion, and her Star Wars novels.