Yvonne Liu. Writer. Adoptee. Memoir-in-Progress
@yvonneliuwriter.bsky.social
Over 3 million read HuffPost #adoptee essay. NYT, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholar. Received support from PEN America & Bread Loaf Writers. Modern Love podcast. Mental Health Advocate. James Patterson grant #writer #memoirs
An early Christmas gift. I thought I knew the end of my memoir, but today the true one revealed itself. My teachers and workshop leaders were right: The book will tell you what it wants to be. Thank you, book!
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An early Christmas gift. I thought I knew the end of my memoir, but today the true one revealed itself. My teachers and workshop leaders were right: The book will tell you what it wants to be. Thank you, book!
Praying for the people of Hong Kong. I’ll never forget the kindness of so many when I returned in 2023, my first visit to the place of my birth since leaving as a small child.
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Praying for the people of Hong Kong. I’ll never forget the kindness of so many when I returned in 2023, my first visit to the place of my birth since leaving as a small child.
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for
• Friends I’ve made here and at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social and @awpwriter.org Conference
• Publishing in the NYT, HuffPost and the Los Angeles Times this year
• Making a lot of progress on my memoir
Wishing you and yours a safe and lovely holiday week. 🥰🥰
• Friends I’ve made here and at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social and @awpwriter.org Conference
• Publishing in the NYT, HuffPost and the Los Angeles Times this year
• Making a lot of progress on my memoir
Wishing you and yours a safe and lovely holiday week. 🥰🥰
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for
• Friends I’ve made here and at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social and @awpwriter.org Conference
• Publishing in the NYT, HuffPost and the Los Angeles Times this year
• Making a lot of progress on my memoir
Wishing you and yours a safe and lovely holiday week. 🥰🥰
• Friends I’ve made here and at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social and @awpwriter.org Conference
• Publishing in the NYT, HuffPost and the Los Angeles Times this year
• Making a lot of progress on my memoir
Wishing you and yours a safe and lovely holiday week. 🥰🥰
A terrific episode with the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and many other bestsellers.
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Mitch Albom: Storytelling Master Shares His Secrets | How I Write
Podcast Episode · How I Write · 08/10/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A terrific episode with the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and many other bestsellers.
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After hours of doing revisions yesterday, went into a rabbit hole of the Olivia Nuzzi and RyanLizza blowup. Kept typing Nuzzo and Luzzi in my searches. Let's just call the kerfuffle #DoubleZgate. #olivianuzzi #ryanlizza
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
After hours of doing revisions yesterday, went into a rabbit hole of the Olivia Nuzzi and RyanLizza blowup. Kept typing Nuzzo and Luzzi in my searches. Let's just call the kerfuffle #DoubleZgate. #olivianuzzi #ryanlizza
Thank you Writing Workshops and @courtneykocak.bsky.social for the Edit and Elevate: Revision Intensive. So many great tips, like put your reader hat on, from your revision checklist. Can’t wait to read your memoir, Girl Gone Wild.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thank you Writing Workshops and @courtneykocak.bsky.social for the Edit and Elevate: Revision Intensive. So many great tips, like put your reader hat on, from your revision checklist. Can’t wait to read your memoir, Girl Gone Wild.
Honored to serve as the moderator of a workshop, “Understanding Neurodiversity: Why Does It Matter.”
Our speaker spoke about autism and ADHD. As someone with ADHD, the program helped me understand myself and others better.
Our speaker spoke about autism and ADHD. As someone with ADHD, the program helped me understand myself and others better.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Honored to serve as the moderator of a workshop, “Understanding Neurodiversity: Why Does It Matter.”
Our speaker spoke about autism and ADHD. As someone with ADHD, the program helped me understand myself and others better.
Our speaker spoke about autism and ADHD. As someone with ADHD, the program helped me understand myself and others better.
Excited to attend the AAJA Rosemead screening with Lucy Liu, @frankshyong.bsky.social @josiehuang.bsky.social. Shame & stigma kept my mother from seeking help and delayed my treatment too. I’ve published pieces in national outlets to raise awareness of how AAPI mental health stigma hurts so many.
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Excited to attend the AAJA Rosemead screening with Lucy Liu, @frankshyong.bsky.social @josiehuang.bsky.social. Shame & stigma kept my mother from seeking help and delayed my treatment too. I’ve published pieces in national outlets to raise awareness of how AAPI mental health stigma hurts so many.
Two of my kids have birthdays this week. I’m so grateful for the kind, hardworking young people they've become. An arc of my memoir traces how a physically and emotionally abandoned child grew up determined to become a better mother than the ones she had.
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Two of my kids have birthdays this week. I’m so grateful for the kind, hardworking young people they've become. An arc of my memoir traces how a physically and emotionally abandoned child grew up determined to become a better mother than the ones she had.
Honored that my HuffPost essay about the domestic violence behind a model minority facade was included in @saribotton.bsky.social's Memoir Mondays, “a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web.”
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We Looked Like A 'Model Minority' Family. No One Knew What My Father Was Doing Behind Closed Doors.
"Even after I graduated as valedictorian of my high school, got accepted into a top MBA program, and became a wife and mother, the silence stayed with me."
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November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Honored that my HuffPost essay about the domestic violence behind a model minority facade was included in @saribotton.bsky.social's Memoir Mondays, “a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web.”
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Thrilled that my second @nytimes Tiny Love Stories published during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Thrilled that my second @nytimes Tiny Love Stories published during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Why I Kept My Breast Cancer Secret for 28 Years.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is coming to a close. Women of color get mammograms at lower rates than others. Please share this with someone you love.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month is coming to a close. Women of color get mammograms at lower rates than others. Please share this with someone you love.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Why I Kept My Breast Cancer Secret for 28 Years.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is coming to a close. Women of color get mammograms at lower rates than others. Please share this with someone you love.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month is coming to a close. Women of color get mammograms at lower rates than others. Please share this with someone you love.
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If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, please reach out to them. I wish people had reached out to my mother and me. www.huffpost.com/entry/kriste...
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, please reach out to them. I wish people had reached out to my mother and me. www.huffpost.com/entry/kriste...
What the heck! Joking about domestic violence wasn't a one-off!!! Page Six. For women like me, it's not funny!
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October 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What the heck! Joking about domestic violence wasn't a one-off!!! Page Six. For women like me, it's not funny!
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Actor Kristen Bell thought she was making a joke. As a childhood domestic violence survivor and witness, it’s no laughing matter. This essay was hard to write, but if I can encourage ONE woman to leave an abuser, then I'm glad I broke my silence.
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Kristen Bell Thought Her 'Joke' Was Harmless. But She Never Had To Listen To My Dad Attack My Mom.
"Reading it made my blood run cold. I know what real death threats sound like."
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October 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Actor Kristen Bell thought she was making a joke. As a childhood domestic violence survivor and witness, it’s no laughing matter. This essay was hard to write, but if I can encourage ONE woman to leave an abuser, then I'm glad I broke my silence.
www.huffpost.com/entry/kriste...
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@karissachen.bsky.social's powerful novel Homeseeking spoke to so many. Loved hosting and helping to organize the Asian American book club gathering with novelist @rosakwoneaston. Thank you, Karissa, for your beautiful story about the immigrant experience and Chinese and Taiwanese history.
October 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@karissachen.bsky.social's powerful novel Homeseeking spoke to so many. Loved hosting and helping to organize the Asian American book club gathering with novelist @rosakwoneaston. Thank you, Karissa, for your beautiful story about the immigrant experience and Chinese and Taiwanese history.
Delighted that a shorter version of my Diane Keaton essay was a Los Angeles Times letter to the editor
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Diane Keaton Showed Every Woman That Our Stories Don’t End at a Certain Age
Born on the same day, fourteen years apart, we lived parallel lives on opposite sides of the screen. mirrored
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October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Delighted that a shorter version of my Diane Keaton essay was a Los Angeles Times letter to the editor
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I so miss my maternal grandmother, Mee Ma, and pray she’s in a better place now. It broke my heart to cut the pages I’d written about her because they no longer served the story. Still, she lives in my heart.
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I so miss my maternal grandmother, Mee Ma, and pray she’s in a better place now. It broke my heart to cut the pages I’d written about her because they no longer served the story. Still, she lives in my heart.
When I watched Something’s Gotta Give, I dreamed of becoming a writer/creative like Diane Keaton’s character. From Annie Hall to Baby Boom to Morning Glory, she embodied women’s growing empowerment, changing roles, and independence. R.I.P. #DianeKeaton.
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
When I watched Something’s Gotta Give, I dreamed of becoming a writer/creative like Diane Keaton’s character. From Annie Hall to Baby Boom to Morning Glory, she embodied women’s growing empowerment, changing roles, and independence. R.I.P. #DianeKeaton.
Delighted to receive these handmade works of art from @bethkephart.bsky.social sky.social. Every piece feels personal and full of meaning. Love the message: "You are not alone."
October 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Delighted to receive these handmade works of art from @bethkephart.bsky.social sky.social. Every piece feels personal and full of meaning. Love the message: "You are not alone."
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Thank you @narrativelyacademy.bsky.social for your support, great classes, and for fostering such a generous community!
Thank you @narrativelyacademy.bsky.social for your support, great classes, and for fostering such a generous community!
Congrats to Writer Yvonne Liu on Winning a HUGE Grant!
A veteran of several Narratively Academy classes, Yvonne was chosen for a new initiative that is giving 12 writers up to $50,000 each to go finish their books.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Thank you @narrativelyacademy.bsky.social for your support, great classes, and for fostering such a generous community!
Thank you @narrativelyacademy.bsky.social for your support, great classes, and for fostering such a generous community!
Fifty-six hours working on my memoir in September. Not as much as I hoped, but progress. Bird by bird. Word by word.
October 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fifty-six hours working on my memoir in September. Not as much as I hoped, but progress. Bird by bird. Word by word.
So special to meet Laura Cathcart Robins, author of Stash, virtually. “I didn’t have any secrets by the time I wrote this book.” Yes, we’re long past the fear of writing our memoirs. Grateful to @lisanapoli @jillconnection for a terrific program.
September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So special to meet Laura Cathcart Robins, author of Stash, virtually. “I didn’t have any secrets by the time I wrote this book.” Yes, we’re long past the fear of writing our memoirs. Grateful to @lisanapoli @jillconnection for a terrific program.
Excited for the Devil Wears Prada sequel! My two daughters and I rewatched the original every winter holiday break. I've read @voguemagazine.bsky.social for years. As someone who writes culture essays, I enjoy reading the articles and decoding what the ads reveal about society and trends.
September 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Excited for the Devil Wears Prada sequel! My two daughters and I rewatched the original every winter holiday break. I've read @voguemagazine.bsky.social for years. As someone who writes culture essays, I enjoy reading the articles and decoding what the ads reveal about society and trends.
"You figure out what you want to write by writing," @cduhigg.bsky.social. The Power of Habit transformed my writing process. So many great tips about writing and publishing at the Authors Insider The Next Big Idea AMA
September 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"You figure out what you want to write by writing," @cduhigg.bsky.social. The Power of Habit transformed my writing process. So many great tips about writing and publishing at the Authors Insider The Next Big Idea AMA