Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

{{Short description|Singapore-born American author and journalist}}

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Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a Singapore-born author, journalist and professor.{{Cite web |title=Singapore's 'Sarong Party Girls' with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan {{!}} Lesley University |url=https://lesley.edu/podcasts/why-we-write/singapores-sarong-party-girls-with-cheryl-lu-lien-tan |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=lesley.edu}}{{Cite web |last=Powers |first=Samantha |last2= |first2= |date=2023-05-09 |title=Medill alumna Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan to serve as inaugural George R.R. Martin Chair in storytelling Medill alumna to serve as first George R.R. Martin storytelling chair |url=https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/05/09/lateststories/medill-alumna-cheryl-lu-lien-tan-to-serve-as-inaugural-george-r-r-martin-chair-in-storytelling/ |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=The Daily Northwestern}}

Born and raised in Singapore, she moved to the U.S. to study at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. As a journalist, she has been a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine and the Baltimore Sun, and she has published stories at mainstream media like The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy or Newsweek, among many other places.

In 2024, she became a professor at the Medill School of Journalism, where she is the inaugural George R.R. Martin Chair.

She has been an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association. As an author, she has published and co-edited some best-seller books.{{Cite web |title=Five Minutes With... Novelist Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan |url=https://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/blog/five-minutes-novelist-cheryl-lu-lien-tan/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Ubud Writers & Readers Festival |language=en-US}}