chinhualu.bsky.social
🇹🇼🇺🇸 1.5-generation immigrant. Intersectional feminist writer published on Vice, Catapult & more + freelance content strategist.
Currently writing a YA novel. Tin House ‘25
Taipei kid ➡️ Bay Area city girl ➡️ Lake Tahoe mountain woman
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I always appreciate @karenho.bsky.social for reminding us not to doomscroll
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OpenSnow is $35 per year (and takes a while to learn how to use because the amount of info can be overwhelming) but it’s well worth it for us who went through Tamarack and Caldor Fires in 2021. We live in Lake Tahoe where the weather is a huge factor in our day to day decision making.
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I always like to have more data sources so my husband and I also pay for this very detailed weather app called OpenSnow. It has so much info: wind gust forecast, air quality estimates, and shows where the smoke will go over time too.
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Takeout pizza wasn’t enough so then I also made instant noodles
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(Yes this is my cat being cozy but also extremely skeptical)
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Thanks for including me!
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Storytelling is one of my chosen forms of activism.
It is serendipity then that for the Tin House workshop, I was selected to be in a group led by an award-winning author who’s a fellow immigrant woman of color.
I cannot wait to learn from Natalia Sylvester and others soon 💖
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Post-election, I was going through the stages of grief. Eventually I arrived at “What’s the point of writing a YA novel anymore?”
To remind myself that stories from people like me—a Taiwanese American 1.5th generation immigrant—are important to tell especially now, here are parts of my application