Abigail Hing Wen (Chinese: 邢立美; pinyin: Xíng Lìměi; born 1977) is an American writer, film producer, lawyer and speaker.
[11] As a Presidential Scholar, she was invited by the Taiwanese government to attend the study tour program at Chien Tan, which eventually formed the setting of her first novel, Loveboat, Taipei.
[citation needed] Wen earned her JD at Columbia Law School and MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, studying under Kathi Appelt, A.M. Jenkins, and Martine Leavitt.
[10] Wen and Loveboat, Taipei have been featured in NBC Bay Area Show,[16] World Journal,[17] the South China Morning Post,[18] Cosmopolitan,[19] and People en Español.
[20] The novel appeared on a number of Most Anticipated lists including The Boston Globe,[21] Book Riot, Bustle,[22] BuzzFeed, The UK Evening Standard,[23] The Nerd Daily, Seventeen,[24] and She Reads.
[25] Loveboat, Taipei was selected as a Barnes & Noble Young Adult Book Club Pick[26] and it appeared at number 1 on Cosmopolitan's 25 Best Audiobooks of 2020 list.
[29] Wen, as executive producer, and the film have been covered by The Hollywood Reporter,[30] Entertainment Weekly,[31] The New York Times,[32] Variety,[33] Deadline,[34] CBS Mornings,[35] People, and AsAmNews.
[44] Her guests have included founders in the field, such as Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun, as well as Google DeepMind, US Congress, The World Bank and leading AI faculty at MIT, Stanford, and University of California, Berkeley.