China Tom Miéville is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic, born on 6 September 1972 in Norwich, England. He is renowned for his contribution to the genre often described as "weird fiction" and is allied with the New Weird movement, which seeks to move fantasy away from the typical commercial, genre clichés of Tolkien epigones.

Miéville's work has garnered multiple awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Awards. Notably, he holds the record for the most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins, having won it three times. His acclaimed novel Perdido Street Station was ranked by Locus as the 6th best fantasy novel published in the 20th century.

China Miéville is also active in left-wing politics in the UK. He has been involved with various socialist organizations including the International Socialist Organization (US) and the International Socialist Network (UK). A member of the Socialist Workers Party, he became a founding member of Left Unity in 2013. In the 2001 United Kingdom general election, he stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North under the Socialist Alliance banner.

Additionally, Miéville has published academic work on Marxism and international law and was a writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago during 2012–13. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has served as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University and is one of the founding editors of the journal Salvage.