Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
Hi. I’m Nicki Chen, an author and blogger from Edmonds, WA.
When I started writing seriously, I was living overseas. Having followed my husband’s job to the Philippines, I was what they now call a “trailing spouse.” The earlier term was “expat wife.” I’d been trained as a teacher, but the Manila International School didn’t hire expat teachers. So, after several years of children’s birthday parties, volunteer work, and Chinese painting classes, I finally decided I needed a new occupation.
By the time I was accepted into the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, we’d moved to a small island nation in the South Pacific called Vanuatu. It made for a very long commute to classes in Montpelier, VT.
My first novel, Tiger Tail Soup, is loosely based on the stories my late husband, Eugene, told me about his childhood in China during the Japanese…
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