Abigail Hing Wen

Abigail Hing Wen is a young adult fiction author from Washington DC. Wen was born to a family of immigrants with an Indonesian father and a Filipino mother. Her grandparents had been immigrants to Indonesia and the Philippines, having originally come from Shandong and Fujian provinces in China. Abigail was brought up in Ohio and then went to Columbia Law School and Harvard University. Like her lead character in her debut novel “Loveboat, Taipei,” she also attended the Loveboat program in Taiwan when she was a teenager. After graduating from law school, she found a job in Washington DC where she worked in the Senate. She would then become a law clerk for a federal judge before finally making it big working on artificial intelligence for venture capital organizations in Silicon Valley. While she was climbing the ladder in the corporate world, she still had an interest in authorship. During her free time, she attended the Vermont College of Fine Arts from where she got her writing masters. When she is not working on her novels, she loves to spend time talking long walks with her husband and two children, listening and dancing to music, spending time with extended family in the Bay Area and hanging out with friends.