Visual Thinker & Storyteller
Ching Hsieh

Hi, I'm Ching.

A Taiwanese American writer living in Canada.
Join me on my writing journey!

Small bouquet of wildflowers

Fun Facts

  • I prefer a bookshelf organized by colors of the rainbow.
  • My favorite season is summer, though my birthday and favorite holiday falls in autumn.
  • I like my breakfasts salty, and dinners with something sweet.
  • Coffee or tea? BOTH. If you've never tried this combo, look up the beverage "yuenyeung."
  • My palms sweat chronically, no matter my mood.
  • One of my first jobs was at Borders Books & Music.
  • I had an internship at a boutique literary agency in LA during college, where I read and evaluated slush pile manuscripts!

Author's Bio

It's lovely to meet you! Thanks for visiting my page.

I'm a pre-published kidlit author living in Montréal with my husband, our twin girls, and two very opinionated rescue dogs. I've been lucky to call the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Taiwan home before moving to Canada.

I've always been a visual thinker, which took me down a decade-long career path designing user experiences for emerging tech. As AI encroaches and rapidly transforms that industry, I find myself back to square one, yearning to create from scratch through deep thinking and imagination.

Growing up as a third-culture kid, I turned to books as a lifeline for learning about different cultures, identities, perspectives, and philosophies. As a writer, I aim to create worlds that kids can belong to or get lost in, or both.

What I Write

Commercial & High-Concept Contemporary Cultural Informational Fiction Lyrical & Atmospheric Magic Realism & Whimsy Neurodiversity & Inclusion Social & Emotional Learning

Books That Defined Me

A collection of childhood favorites that to this day still elicit an emotional response or vivid memories.

Cover of Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Cover of Meet Samantha: An American Girl by Susan S. Adler Cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Cover of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Cover of Matilda by Roald Dahl Cover of Freckle Juice by Judy Blume Cover of Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar Cover of Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin Cover of Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Cover of Bart Simpson's Guide to Life by Matt Groening Cover of Doraemon, Vol. 1 by Fujiko F. Fujio Cover of Boys Over Flowers, Vol. 1 by Yoko Kamio Cover of Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine Cover of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Cover of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Cover of The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney Cover of Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola Cover of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst Cover of Corduroy by Don Freeman Cover of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

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