For most of my life, I’ve lived in the world of logic and precision — in analysis, data, clinical research tools, and many years at Harvard. Life takes a turn that will allow me to say a bitter sweet goodbye to this meaningful work and to live my life in a completely different way. As I prepare to step away from my bioinformatics career, I find myself rediscovering the passions that once shaped my childhood dreams — music, art, writing, and the search for beauty. I’m traini

Coming in 2026 This is a preliminary cover for a book I'm working on. The Land of Sorrow was originally published in Chinese as 家国一梦,...

As soon as I started reading Jessica Zhang’s novel, Silent Inheritance, I knew it was something special. Here the history of China during...

When I bring my novels from Chinese into English, one of the most painful choices I face is whether to change the characters’ names....