I’m a writer from Hong Kong, and the author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Random House).
My essays, reported features, and cultural criticism have been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, New York Magazine, This American Life, New Statesman, The Rumpus, Evergreen Review, and elsewhere. My writing has also appeared in the anthologies Making Space (2023), Writing in Difficult Times (2021), and Aftershock (2020).
I was previously co-founding editor of Still / Loud, a senior reporter at Hong Kong Free Press, and Associate Editor at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. I co-run the literary journal Cicada and sometimes write for South China Morning Post’s Postmag.
I currently teach creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. I’ve also given workshops and readings at Oxford University, University of Leeds, and other universities, and I was the visiting author at Åbo Akademi University in 2023. I have a BA and LLB from University of Hong Kong, and an MA in Creative Writing (New Prose Narratives) from Royal Holloway, University of London.
I am represented by Clare Mao at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. You can sometimes find me on my substack, Shallow Eyes.