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Why am I qualified to write what I do?
I'm a Chinese-Canadian-American who was watching Chinese martial arts fantasies and speculative-fiction TV shows and movies as soon as I was old enough to understand them. You could say I nursed on magic and imagination. |
At the University of British Columbia, I took numerous science and math classes, including:
astronomy (see my textbook above),
physics (geophysics, thermodynamics, etc.),
math (matrix algebra, statistics, calculus up to differential equations)
geography (climatology, synoptic meteorology, hydrology, micrometeorology, etc.),
computer science (coding back before they called it coding),
and biology across disciplines (biological foundations of language, brain & behavior, etc.).
So I'm not just writing science for kids because it's a niche to fill; I actually have a deep and lifelong love for science and have studied various branches both formally and as an autodidact for fun. I'm on a mission to share and foster this deep love with kids, taking them beyond the superficial "fun facts" knowledge to a gut-level appreciation.
astronomy (see my textbook above),
physics (geophysics, thermodynamics, etc.),
math (matrix algebra, statistics, calculus up to differential equations)
geography (climatology, synoptic meteorology, hydrology, micrometeorology, etc.),
computer science (coding back before they called it coding),
and biology across disciplines (biological foundations of language, brain & behavior, etc.).
So I'm not just writing science for kids because it's a niche to fill; I actually have a deep and lifelong love for science and have studied various branches both formally and as an autodidact for fun. I'm on a mission to share and foster this deep love with kids, taking them beyond the superficial "fun facts" knowledge to a gut-level appreciation.
In brief:
Birth - Hong Kong
Youth - Vancouver
Current residence - southern Indiana
Influences - Star Trek, first moon landing, and the magical Chinese stories of my early years
Education - University of British Columbia (linguistics/speech science degree), plus a couple of years studying climatology in the Department of Geography
Writes - picture books, middle grade, young adult, adult; nonfiction, general fiction, and speculative fiction
Loves - food, sleep, food (wait, have I mentioned food?), physics (and science in general), conservation/environmentalism, birding
Hates - drama, drama queens, and parties (especially parties with drama/drama queens and without food)
Mentored by - Jane Yolen, We Need Diverse Books, 2017
Represented by - Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary
First publication - "Today, My Big Day" in Ladybug magazine, 1994
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Birth - Hong Kong
Youth - Vancouver
Current residence - southern Indiana
Influences - Star Trek, first moon landing, and the magical Chinese stories of my early years
Education - University of British Columbia (linguistics/speech science degree), plus a couple of years studying climatology in the Department of Geography
Writes - picture books, middle grade, young adult, adult; nonfiction, general fiction, and speculative fiction
Loves - food, sleep, food (wait, have I mentioned food?), physics (and science in general), conservation/environmentalism, birding
Hates - drama, drama queens, and parties (especially parties with drama/drama queens and without food)
Mentored by - Jane Yolen, We Need Diverse Books, 2017
Represented by - Tracy Marchini, BookEnds Literary
First publication - "Today, My Big Day" in Ladybug magazine, 1994
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The 3-year-old me that I write for (even the scary stuff)!
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Present day me...still likes some scary stuff
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Top-secret info about me, shared only with you and the 6 other people who read this far:
1) My husband won the space argument and I no longer have a 4-harness loom. So if I still want magic carpets (or towels), I will have to knit or crochet them instead...unless I can sneak a tabletop/lap loom by him.
2) I once wanted to be an opera singer for a hot minute (or a hot 2 years).
3) In 1987, I was offered both a job with Environment Canada and a sponsorship for the Miss Hong Kong pageant. I didn't take either, and I don't know which I regret more.
4) My husband has far more clothes and shoes than I do, like maybe 4-5 times as many!
5) I appeared on television (as an audience member) when I was 5 years old.
6) I've been an amateur astronomer for 44 years; my first ever magazine subscription was to Astronomy magazine in 1980.
1) My husband won the space argument and I no longer have a 4-harness loom. So if I still want magic carpets (or towels), I will have to knit or crochet them instead...unless I can sneak a tabletop/lap loom by him.
2) I once wanted to be an opera singer for a hot minute (or a hot 2 years).
3) In 1987, I was offered both a job with Environment Canada and a sponsorship for the Miss Hong Kong pageant. I didn't take either, and I don't know which I regret more.
4) My husband has far more clothes and shoes than I do, like maybe 4-5 times as many!
5) I appeared on television (as an audience member) when I was 5 years old.
6) I've been an amateur astronomer for 44 years; my first ever magazine subscription was to Astronomy magazine in 1980.
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