Wei Tchou
Wei Tchou is a writer and editor based in New York City. She is the author of the memoir, Little Seed, which was published by Deep Vellum, and is a co-founder of Reported Media, a content studio.
Early life and education
[edit]Tchou grew up in a Chinese American household in Nashville, Tennessee; her parents are Shanghainese immigrants. She attended the University of North Carolina and, afterward, attended the MFA program at Hunter College.[1][2]
Career
[edit]From 2016 to 2017, Tchou was a regular columnist for The Paris Review.[3] Her pieces have additionally appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and others.[4][5] Tchou was also a 2016 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.[2]
In 2020, Tchou and Bess Adler co-founded Reported Media, a content studio that works with several clients to produce documentaries and other storytelling works; past clients include Feeding America and Clue.[6] In the winter of that year, Tchou attended a MacDowell Residency where she worked on her memoir.[7]
In 2024, Tchou's memoir, Little Seed, was published by Deep Vellum. Nashville Scene called it an "extraordinary first book."[1] The New Yorker described it as "A family story and a natural history of the fern".[8] Similarly, Kirkus Reviews said it was "An intriguing, occasionally uneven family memoir grafted to a cultural history of ferns."[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Irmscher, Christoph (2024-09-03). "Wei Tchou's Experimental Memoir Speaks Several Languages at Once". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ a b "Margins Fellow & Mentor Reading". Asian American Writers' Workshop. 2016-11-02. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ Tchou, Wei (June 9, 2016). "Live Online". The Paris Review.
- ^ Tchou, Wei (February 9, 2024). "The Nostalgic Appeal of Mung Bean Desserts". The New York Times.
- ^ Tchou, Wei (2016-05-26). "Eddie Huang's Spiky Chronicles of Asian-American Experience". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "Custom built branded content for companies". Reported Media. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "Ferns and Family History in Wei Tchou's Memoir Little Seed". MacDowell. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 2024-05-27. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
- ^ LITTLE SEED | Kirkus Reviews.