Hua Ai (also sometimes published as Nikolina Hua, Nikolina Ai) is a London-based writer with an MA in Media & Communications and a BA in English Literature.

Published in Mandarin since fifteen, her English-language poetry has received international recognition and appears across the UK, US, Australia, India, and Uzbekistan.

Her chapbook, Exiles Across Time, moves between myth and lived witness—Lilithic refusals, Sarajevo’s rivers, East China Sea beacons—braiding Mandarin’s suggestive poetics with English’s direct address.

Her work explores spiritual animality, intersectional feminism, mythic sensuality, and sisterhood. She is currently completing a debut literary-fiction novel set amid political unrest and emotional reconstruction.

When not writing, she is either running or finding calm by the lake, alongside parenting five rescue cats.