Wei Tchou
{{Short description|Writer and editor}}
Wei Tchou is a writer and editor based in New York City. She is the author of the memoir, Little Seed, which was published by Deep Vellum, and is a co-founder of Reported Media, a content studio.
Early life and education
Tchou grew up in a Chinese American household in Nashville, Tennessee; her parents are Shanghainese immigrants. She attended the University of North Carolina and, afterward, attended the MFA program at Hunter College.{{Cite web |last=Irmscher |first=Christoph |date=2024-09-03 |title=Wei Tchou’s Experimental Memoir Speaks Several Languages at Once |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/books/wei-tchou-little-seed-review/article_eec31794-66fe-11ef-9a82-3f91e9d479f0.html#:~:text=Tchou's%20new%20memoir%20Little%20Seed,indeed,%20several%20languages%20at%20once. |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Nashville Scene |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2016-11-02 |title=Margins Fellow & Mentor Reading |url=https://aaww.org/curation/margins-fellow-mentor-reading-2/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Asian American Writers' Workshop |language=en-US}}
Career
From 2016 to 2017, Tchou was a regular columnist for The Paris Review.{{Cite news |last=Tchou |first=Wei |date=June 9, 2016 |title=Live Online |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/06/09/live-online/ |work=The Paris Review}} Her pieces have additionally appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and others.{{Cite news |last=Tchou |first=Wei |date=February 9, 2024 |title=The Nostalgic Appeal of Mung Bean Desserts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/t-magazine/mung-bean-desserts.html |work=The New York Times}}{{Cite news |last=Tchou |first=Wei |date=2016-05-26 |title=Eddie Huang’s Spiky Chronicles of Asian-American Experience |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/eddie-huangs-spiky-chronicles-of-asian-american-experience |access-date=2024-11-24 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}} Tchou was also a 2016 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
In 2020, Tchou and Bess Adler co-founded Reported Media, a content studio that works with several clients to produce documentaries and other storytelling works; past clients include Feeding America and Clue.{{Cite web |title=Custom built branded content for companies |url=https://www.reportedmedia.com/about |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Reported Media |language=en-US}} In the winter of that year, Tchou attended a MacDowell Residency where she worked on her memoir.{{Cite web |title=Ferns and Family History in Wei Tchou's Memoir Little Seed |url=https://www.macdowell.org/made-at-macdowell/wei-tchous-memoir-little-seed |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=MacDowell |language=en}}
In 2024, Tchou's memoir, Little Seed, was published by Deep Vellum. Nashville Scene called it an "extraordinary first book." The New Yorker described it as "A family story and a natural history of the fern".{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2024-05-27 |title=Briefly Noted Book Reviews |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/03/a-body-made-of-glass-little-seed-faraway-the-southern-sky-and-the-ministry-of-time |access-date=2024-11-24 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}} Similarly, Kirkus Reviews said it was "An intriguing, occasionally uneven family memoir grafted to a cultural history of ferns."{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/wei-tchou/little-seed-tchou/ |title=LITTLE SEED {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}
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Category:American people of Chinese descent
Category:University of North Carolina alumni
Category:The New York Times people
Category:21st-century American writers