Rosalie (who has also published under the name Jessica) is a twenty-something fiction writer and essayist who has published in both English and Chinese. Her writing for The New York Times Chinese Website won a SOPA Award for Editorial Excellence in 2017, and her short story “Red Mask” (Shimmer 2016) was honorably mentioned in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and The Best Horror of the Year. She is an SFWA full member as well as an alumna of The Odyssey Writing Workshop (Class of 2012) and Taos Toolbox (Class of 2013).
She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2016 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature. Her junior year, she spent 14 months studying abroad in Beijing, China, which she regards as the “inciting incident” (as they teach you in writing workshops) of her life journey. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Integrative Biology, also at UC Berkeley, studying blood-brain barrier deterioration in aging and related pathologies.
As an avid animal lover, Rosalie owns a lot of pets and harbors a special fondness for exotic husbandry. To date, she has raised 1 leopard gecko, 8 rats, 2 crayfish, 4 chickens, and 1 cat.
Rosalie has danced in some form or shape for most of her life, dabbling in styles ranging from ballet to hiphop to acrobatic pole-dancing. While studying in Beijing, she performed in two nightclubs as a pole dancer. Currently, she attends lessons in salsa dancing and k-pop.
http://cn.nytstyle.com/culture/20150917/tc17xinjiang/zh-hant/. It is well read, I love it. Ihave bee to Yining, a city of Xinjiang, and found it awesome. I hope your write a long story about the journey. Thought dangerous, Xinjiang should have been unfolded to the world. You are the rigth person for it.
Thank you, Mark! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Yining looks beautiful from pictures I’ve seen. I didn’t have a chance to go this time, but I hope to make the journey someday…
I love your article “华人在特朗普国：妈妈支持他，我怎么办？”, https://share.cnsxzh.com/technology/20161129/chinese-in-trumpland/. Where can I find the English version? I want to share it with other ABCs who cannot read Chinese.
Thank you so much.
Hey, Jessica, I enjoyed your articles very much! Well done!
Hey, Jessica, I enjoyed your articles very much! Well done!
Love the story with your grandmother. She’s a fighter and inspiration to my life!