Adoptee. Childhood Trauma Survivor.
About & Media
Yvonne Liu is a Los Angeles-based writer and mental health advocate whose writing explores family trauma, mental illness, adoption, and healing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NBC News, Salon, The Rumpus, Newsweek, and elsewhere. Her memoir-in-progress.
LEFT TO BE FOUND
is a story of resilience, self-discovery, and the courage to claim one’s truth.
- Recipient of a James Patterson "Go Finish Your Book" Grant
- Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar
- Support from PEN America, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences
Other
My HuffPost essay went viral twice and was read by over 3 million people. My essays were picked up by Apple and Yahoo News.
Conference committee member and moderator/facilitator for the Institute for Independent Journalists and Asian American conferences, retreats, and writing workshops
Ambassador for The OpEd Project, a nonprofit organization that helps marginalized people write and publish opinion pieces.
Juried Workshops & Programs:
Sewanee Writers’ Conference. 2025.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. 2023 and 2024.
PEN America Emerging Voices Workshop. 2024.
Tin House, Kenyon Review, and VONA Winter Workshops, Story Studio Memoir-in-a-Year, and Yale Workshop
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