Biography & Contact

Upcoming Works

• A graphic memoir with WW Norton, May 2010. "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale"
  

Causes I Support

• 826 Valencia Street

Agents

• Literary:

  Deborah Warren at the East West Agency

  Sandra Dijkstra (projects from 1992-2007)

  Speech:

  Susan Katz at ConnectingAuthors.com

Contact Agents

• East West Agency
  1158 26th St., Suite 462
  Santa Monica, CA 90403

Publishers

• Harcourt Brace
  WW Norton
  Candlewick Press

Influences

• The immigration journey from Taiwan to Japan at age five and then to America at height of the Civil Rights Movement; learning English as my third language; Democracy Spring (1989) and Tiananmen Massacre. Baba’s Manchurian stubbornness and Mama’s Hakka fortitude; the years of stalking that taught me patience and the love of solitude; the benevolent spirit of my great grandfather who was swept out of his estate to wander a beggar under Communism.