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About Me — Aimee Liu
Publisher of MFA Lore, author of East-West novels and all sorts of nonfiction, ghostwriter, MFA advisor, former painter… and current photopainter!
MFA Lore Substack!
In my MFA Lore stack I share more than four decades of experience as a bestselling author, ghostwriter, and MFA advisor. My goal each week is to take you on an MFA-level deep dive into the craft and business of creative prose-writing, both fiction and memoir. Periodically, I’ll also share personal essays steeped in my own family history and Asian-American heritage, as well as author and industry interviews, both live and in print. So, expect some artistry, some trade, some story, some inspiration, and some in between. Subscribe HERE.
Novels!
If you love novels about Americans in Asia and Asians in America and the families that form between them, you may have read my fiction. In the 1990s I published two novels, Face and Cloud Mountain, based on my family’s mixed-race history and my examination of my own Chinese-American identity:
