ABOUT ME

Born in Hong Kong, I was uprooted to Vancouver, Canada at the angsty age of eight, where I spent the rest of my childhood struggling to make sense of the English language. It took a billion Hollywood films and Xbox games for me to finally become fluent.

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Through those mediums, I came to appreciate storytelling. Stories, I realized, possess the power to connect us across the boundaries of language and culture.

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Eager to tell stories of my own, I went on to study creative writing at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio, and the University of Guelph, where I obtained an MFA in Creative Writing.

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My debut memoir, Shall We Talk, is set to be published in Canada by ECW Press in Fall 2027. It explores the 1991 Lauda Air plane crash, which took the life of an aunt I never met, and why death is taboo in Chinese culture. It's also about Hong Kong, changing of the times, love, family, and the secrets we keep--so everything, really.

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I am represented by Kelvin Kong at K2 Literary.

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Author photos by Danny Sung.