About Me

I'm a Chinese-Canadian-American who was watching 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, but these shows and movies also germinated my love for science.


At the University of British Columbia, where I met my spouse, I took numerous science and math classes, studying linguistics/speech science and climatology.

A brief summary of my entire life (short on words, rich in experiences):

Birth - Hong Kong

Youth - Vancouver

Current residence - southern Indiana

Influences - Star Trek, first moon landing, and the magical Chinese stories of my early years

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, parties (especially parties with drama/drama queens and without food), and selfish people

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

First book - Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom, 2019

Psssst... Top-secret info about me, shared only with you and the 6 other people who read this far:

1) I spent a summer performing gonadectomies on rodents. Take that as you will.

2) I once wanted to be an opera singer for a hot minute (or a hot 2 years).

3) In 1987, I was offered a job with Environment Canada, a sponsorship for the Miss Hong Kong pageant, and a lecturer position for a university in Hong Kong. I didn't take any of those, and I don't know which I regret more. (Okay, it's the second. I regret not saying yes to that one the most.)

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 since 1979; my first ever magazine subscription was to Astronomy magazine in 1980.

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