'Writing is the only cure for madness.'

- Di Lebowitz

Mar 85 min

Reflections on publishing A Hakka Woman

Happy birthday to me November 2022, the day before my birthday. It was meant to be a video call meeting with my publishers to discuss the...

May 17, 20212 min

'Too hard'

I recall being fifteen or sixteen and telling my mother that when I grew up I wanted to be a writer, that I wanted to write stories and...

May 11, 20212 min

Reflections a week before my book launch

There is a bubbling in my stomach. I recognise it, it's a feeling I've had before - as a child before a ballet performance, as a student...

Apr 29, 20214 min

The world is only waking up to anti-Asian hate, I've lived with it my whole life.

When I’m having a bad day, I tend to either spend the afternoon taking it out on my punch bag, or I lock myself in my office to write. I...

Apr 29, 20214 min

I know who I am

‘Lebowitz! Come here!’ My mother would scream. She would only call me by my last name if she was cross with me. I don’t know why she did...