About Me

I am a novelist, short story writer, and essayist from the small town of New Providence, New Jersey. My work has been published by The Asian American Writers' Workshop, Foreign Policy Magazine, Failbetter, and Guernica Magazine, among other places. I studied creative writing at Vassar College and am an alumnus of the Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop.  

I am currently finishing my debut literary fiction novel, Indie Pop Cultural Revolution. It's about a Chinese American popstar named Lina, who is the largest international sensation since Taylor Swift or Beyoncé. Lina disappears one day, and her mother hires a private detective named Johnny Feng to find her. But Johnny's not just any detective—he’s a hard drinking, recently divorced, and existentially tortured private eye, who just happens to be childhood friends with the missing icon. In searching for Lina, Johnny unearths multiple layers of her personal history.

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