When did you first start writing?
I wrote plenty of essays as an elementary schooler (took a academic writing course when I was younger... sounds insane, but it's something they offer at school in Taiwan!), but I didn't truly get into creative writing until when I was about... 14 or 15. And that was all limited to fan fiction. I did not write my first original work until the age of 16.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in Taipei, Taiwan, and went to elementary school for three years before moving to the United States. Moving to the United States definitely helped me be more in touch with my heritage, but it also gave me the free time to pursue writing as a hobby (and later as a more serious one that led to publishing!). Whereas in Taiwan I had to study all the time, American education allowed me to go out of the box and try new things.
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