Pan is a New York Times Bestselling American author of young adult fiction, best known for her debut novel The Astonishing Color of After.
Pan was born in Illinois and is the only child of Taiwanese parents who immigrated to the United States.
[1] After graduation, she worked in digital advertising before getting accepted into NYU's Creative Writing program, where she became editor-in-chief at the Washington Square Review.
[1] In 2010, while in grad school, she developed the idea for what would become her debut novel and kept rewriting and putting it aside in favor of different manuscripts.
[4] The novel follows 15-year old Leigh, who deals with her mother's recent death by suicide through traveling to Taiwan and meeting her maternal grandparents.