Visual Thinker & Storyteller
Ching Hsieh

Hi, I'm Ching.

Taiwanese American Kidlit Writer.
2026 PB Rising Stars Honorable Mention.
Join me on my writing journey!

Small bouquet of wildflowers
"But then, if I wasn't a writer, what was I? It felt a lot like nothing. I found myself spinning stories in my head, gathering whimsical notions and observations together, wondering how I should make my voice sound on the page…We all find our play in different places, after all. Some of us in the search for follies, some of us in the stories they suggest." — Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (2023), Katherine May

Author's Bio

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

I'm an aspiring picture book 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.

It took me a long time to call myself a writer, though I've always been surrounded by words. Looking back, the signs seem obvious: editing school newspapers and literary magazines, bookselling at Borders Books & Music (when it still existed!), and interning at a publishing house. After more than a decade in visual design, I'm delighted to bring those experiences together through imaginative storytelling for children.

Growing up as a third-culture kid, I turned to books as a lifeline when the world felt confusing or overwhelming. Today, I write stories that offer readers that same cozy, safe escape when they need it.

Story Themes

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

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