Sharing some upcoming events ✨ Thur 9/25 @ 6 pm ET: A virtual @aaww-nyc.bsky.social event with @deliacai.bsky.social! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-in...

Thank you so much for having me, Brad!

Words can’t explain 🥹 We were deeply inspired by Elaine Hsieh Chou’s fireside chat for her newest novel, “Where Are You Really From,” released Aug 19. Highly recommend checking it out. She’s so personable, funny, & witty! This turned my day around entirely #booktok #sf @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social

Tonight at 7 pm!!

Tomorrow night! 🍏📚

I forgot to share my book tour info for WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM (@penguinpress.bsky.social)‬! I still have events in San Francisco and Las Vegas, as well as a virtual event with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you there! I'll post details and links in the comments 💕

@elainehsiehchou.bsky.social discusses literary community, the search for open space, and experiences of multiple realities.

Thank you @janeciab.bsky.social for speaking with me for @literaryhub.bsky.social! We spoke about the alternate realities of the diaspora, navigating publishing as a writer of color, when I worked as a background actor, screenwriting vs. prose and more 😊 lithub.com/elaine-hsieh...

So thrilled to see WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM on here! @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/what-should-...

My interview for @writersdigest.bsky.social is now up! I talk about how the story collection came together, what surprised me about the process, maintaining a private relationship between you and your work, and more 😊 www.writersdigest.com/elaine-hsieh...

Thank you @hannahbae.bsky.social for this wonderful feature in @sfchronicle.com! I loved speaking with Hannah about this collection and my writing over the years. And I'm so grateful to my editor Casey and my first workshop teacher Kim for their generous words ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

"Each story ends in a way that makes you tip your head back in bewilderment, a reminder that there is no base reality on which everyone’s narrative is built… Where Are You Really From sparkles in the way it infuses dark concepts with whimsy and detail" Tysm for these words @ansonjtong.com!

The first review of WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM (@penguinpress.bsky.social) is out in @startribune.com! Honored to be read by the brilliant @mayleechai.bsky.social ❤️ "All the stories showcase Chou’s audacious talent for wordplay alongside her deep empathy" www.startribune.com/where-are-yo...

I wrote about why sitting Supreme Court justices shouldn't be prolific authors. lithub.com/why-the-supr...

Thank you for including Where Are You Really From @ocregister.bsky.social! I grew up in Orange County and did not think I'd ever see my name in the newspaper. A surreal moment for young Elaine. www.ocregister.com/2025/07/15/3...

PAN by Michael Clune and Where Are You Really From? by @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social are included in The Millions' Great Summer Book Preview! themillions.com/2025/07/the-...

WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM is 25% off on @barnesandnoble.com‬ from now until July 11! Use code PREORDER25 💙 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-are-...

"Her new short story collection (which includes a novella!) confronts many of the same themes via grotesques—mail order brides, au pairs, ugly ducklings, sex bots, dolls..." Thank you so much for including WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM! Out from @penguinpress.bsky.social on August 19 ✨

WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews! ⭐ "Chou is gifted at storytelling with a surrealistic bent ... Sharp storytelling that bends and blurs genre expectations." Out August 19 from @penguinpress.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

PROUD TO BE a guest judge for this year’s Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes along with Charles Yu and Alvina Ling. Writing by Taiwanese Americans and/or about the TA experience is eligible. Deadline to submit is Friday, April 18. www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2025/03/2025...

Very humbled & honored to have made it to @electricliterature.com's final round for Best Campus Novel! Vote in the link below or in their Instagram poll 😊 electricliterature.com/march-gradne...

My op-ed for TIME on why we fall in love with AI. The essay explores an unexpected twist: we don’t really want our AI to become as sophisticated as us and it’s not because we’re afraid of the future ramifications. It’s something worse. time.com/7266050/toxi...

Our favorite pink stack for Valentine’s Day 💘 how many have you read?

📣 @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social is back 📣 The critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation returns with a new short story collection, Where Are You Really From, that ranges from the beautiful to the surreal. Learn more: www.elainehsiehchou.com/storycollect...

Excited to officially share the cover of my story collection, WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM, coming out on August 19, 2025 from @penguinpress.bsky.social! The cover art was designed by the brilliant Aleia Murawski, who also designed the iconic pink cover of DISORIENTATION.

BEST CONTEMPORARY: Disorientation by @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social made me laugh; it made me cringe; it made me scream right until the last page. Real, powerful, satirical, and the perfect send-off to academia.

Just 3 months left until my friend @silviapark.bsky.social's debut LUMINOUS is out from @simonandschuster.bsky.social! I'm so excited for the world to discover this brilliant, heartrending & incredibly prescient novel that will forever change how we think of AI. Mark your calendars for March 11!

was so grateful to be included in The Stacks' 2024 Gift Guide, alongside maybe my favorite book I read this year :,) tracithomas.substack.com/p/the-stacks...

I put this shirt up on Teepublic with all profits going to Planned Parenthood or orgs working for women's health & reproductive rights. It's still for sale if you need a gift for someone who likes poetry, flaming skulls, or a good cause. Link in bio or below. www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2409...

i’m doing signed preorders for STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE with The Lynx (real florida moves) and i’ll draw anything you want in there!!!!!!!! clown it up, it’s your time to shine (and my time to sign) thelynxbooks.com/item/ZoOPMvN...

meant to post a lil tribute to my book on its first 🎂 — but it was right after the election. still heartbroken but want to acknowledge all the good this book has brought me. THANK YOU to everyone who bought, reviewed, and otherwise supported UPCOUNTRY over the last year…I SO APPRECIATE YOU! 🙏🩵🙏🩵🙏🩵🙏🩵

Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to emotionally put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's good. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to horrify myself.

Preppin to teach this classic @alexanderchee essay, which has made life 1000x easier, in fiction workshop tomorrow 🫡 www.vulture.com/2019/10/auth...

What I love most about 黃崇凱’s novels is that he deeply honors the long history of Taiwanese artists, activists, mag editors, etc who refused to lie down & accept the hopelessness of their situations, who often paid with their lives to seed the future worlds they imagined. 《反重力》focuses on the 70s.

hello, good evening, my name is chen chen, i’m a poet, and you may know me from such poems as this, “i love you to the moon &”

My debut is about a historical “pirate queen” because apparently even 19th century Chinese pirates were more comfortable with female leadership than many Americans currently are

I wrote about what Laura Helmuth accomplished at Scientific American, and what her resignation means for science journalism, and for me personally defector.com/do-not-accep...

You can also do a manuscript consultation with Elaine through The Shipman Agency. bit.ly/4fSTeGy

Created a Starter Pack for Black Southern Poets & Writers to follow. Let me know if you want to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/BeuHQme

Friends, the Asian American Feminist Collective just launched their community survey ASIAN AMERICAN FEMINISM IN 2025 AND BEYOND, & we're asking you to help participate, circulate, and share with your networks! ❤️‍🔥 bit.ly/aafc2025

Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/ARue8c8 #literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚

if anyone knows any good immigration lawyers that can help AAPI adoptees prepare for what might be coming next re: denaturalization please feel free to drop them in this thread!! defense that amounts to "nothing bad is happening" need not apply.

1/ Hello everyone! I'm an author and screenwriter from California. My debut novel DISORIENTATION came out in 2022 from @penguinpress.bsky.social and I'm adapting it into a feature film. It's about a white poet who pretended to be Chinese American for over 30 years 👀 prh.com/disorientation

hello new friends! here is where you can find my work: my creature writing at Defector (please subscribe!) defector.com/author/sabri... my personal website with info about my books & such: simbler.github.io my instagram where mostly I post my cats: www.instagram.com/simbler/?hl=en

hey brooklyn a cool new queer bookstore just opened. i stopped in today with some prints & donated a copy of infinity particle, go show them some love :) also there's a cute little guy named dexter

Ok since suddenly there's all these new ppl and I'm also resurrecting use of this app, quick intro: I have a debut novel, HOMESEEKING, coming out on January 7 (and very anxious about it)! Also a mom to a toddler and former editor at a bunch of places, and EIC of Hyphen, currently on hiatus.

My poetry book, Dear Diaspora, explores the intersections of girlhood and Vietnamese diaspora💚 It follows Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist.

For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

My @tinhouse.bsky.social online craft class on book-to-screen adaptation is this Saturday, Nov. 16! The class is also an intro to screenwriting for prose writers. We'll talk about everything from common mistakes to pitching to loglines to fair contracts 📚➡️🎥