About 

I was born in Taiwan, into a tight-knit family that originally came to the island with Chiang Kai-Shek after China's civil war. My grandfather had not returned home to the Mainland in more than sixty years, and the only times we got a call from the motherland were during Chinese New Year. I always tried to weasel my way out of the phone queue as each family member lined up dutifully to exchange pleasantries, pressing the receiver tight to their ears to make out the heavy Hubei accents on the other end breaking up with static. 

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. My grandfather passed during my second year of college, anchoring our ancestry in a country I left at the age of three. After Taiwan, we moved to Singapore, then Hong Kong, then back to Singapore, then New Zealand, then Australia. From Australia, I moved to Chicago for university, then New York for work. 

I graduated with a major in Linguistics, but have been working in finance since graduation. I currently reside in Bermuda, but feel most at home on the road - jet-lagged, in transit, with tired feet and a suitcase of stories to tell.