People. People, people, people. I am so excited to share with you this really exciting news: my debut young adult novel, A Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic, has been selected by the Junior Library Guild!!! Every year, the Junior Library…
We moved to Southern California when I was 8. We’d spent the previous four years in the humid northeast, and my toddler years in my even-more-humid homeland of Taiwan, so it was quite a change. I don’t remember much of…
I’m very excited to participate in this terrific panel with these middle grade and young adult authors. “Walking Through Fire: Hope and Resilience in Middle Grade & YA Fiction, Saturday, May 6, 3:30 pm, Mt. View Mausoleum. Middle Grade and…
Even though I’ve lived in the Los Angeles area for over a decade now, and actually grew up here, I’ve never been to the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Part of that is just inertia: I’ve never liked driving to…
Last year, for the first time since I started attending the AWP conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in 2014, I didn’t have to staff a booth. Revisions were due on my forthcoming novel, I was training for a…
Hi, folks! Some of you may remember Bunt. He’s a little blue creature I made up to soothe myself after a Certain Election. Over the years, Bunt has changed a little. Not much, just a little. Guess what? Bunt has…
On November 3, 2022, I was part of a panel at the Inlandia Institute’s ArtsWalk event. My co-panelists were Carlos Cortes, Ellen Estilai, Terria Smith, and James Coates. We were moderated by the wonderful Minerva Canto Bunch. You can watch…
I’m part of the table read for my friend Lisa Chiu’s sitcom pilot, STRINGS, which she co-wrote with writer Claire Robinson May. For more, check out this graphic–and write to Lisa and Claire to get on the list to attend!
On Saturday, March 26, 12:10-1:10 PM Eastern, join me and Taiwanese-American writers Grace Loh Prasad, Lisa Chiu, and Grace Hwang Lynch as we read from our works about, and discuss, the Taiwanese-American experience.
March 13-19 45 minSunday, March 13 noon CST /10am PSTMonday-Friday, March 14-18 7pm CST /5pm PSTSaturday, March 19 noon CST /10am PST Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. –Mary Oliver Do you long to write but struggle to make…
