ABOUT

Tria’s writing has been featured in The Washington Post, the NYT Now app, Narratively, The Rumpus, The Seventh Wave, Slant’d Media, Reader’s Digest, SELF, and the Editor’s Picks of Medium, among other places. She is also a founding editor of the Black Allyship column at Mochi Magazine.

In all she writes, Tria speaks as an Asian American but does not presume to speak for Asian Americans, the population hailing from too many unique combinations of circumstances to be made monolith. When she sends her words out, she doesn’t think of a name, face, body, or demographic, but hopes to invite in anyone who feels on the edges. If literature is to be a representative record of our human existence, her goal as a writer and editor is to steward more stories from the margins to the page.

A lifelong student of writing, she aims to push her abilities, grow ever more intimate with language, and dig into that which is beyond understanding. Her obsessions include mortality, deep and complicated human attachments, and love in every form.

For Tria, writing is an exercise in asking questions, recognizing patterns, and selecting threads of different heft and color to make these patterns visible to others. She looks to writers who bend toward compassion, who weave absorbing narratives with societal constructs and tender truths — writers like Jesmyn Ward, Ruth Ozeki, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, E.J. Koh, and T Kira Madden.

Her work has received support from Hedgebrook, VONA, Tin House, and Rooted & Written. She is also the winner of a California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship, Charles C. Dawe Innovation in Publishing Award, Sonoma County Writers Camp BIPOC Fellowship, Black Fox Literary Magazine Contest, Carnegie Mellon Opportunity Grant, and was a finalist for the Atticus Review Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest, Rhinebeck Residency, Millay Arts Residency, and National Civvy Award.

She is the co-creator of Make America Dinner Again, and has appeared on NPR, BBC, at SXSW, and more to discuss how to build understanding across differences.

Tria has recently completed a memoir manuscript, and is represented by Annie Hwang at Ayesha Pande Literary.

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Tria Wen is a California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellow whose writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, and Narratively, among other places. Her work has received support from Hedgebrook, VONA, Tin House, and Rooted & Written. She won the Sonoma County Writers Camp BIPOC Fellowship, Black Fox Literary Magazine Contest, Charles C. Dawe Innovation in Publishing Award, and was a finalist for the Millay Arts Residency, Rhinebeck Residency, Atticus Review Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest, and National Civvy Award. She has spoken at SXSW, on NPR, BBC, and multiple shows and podcasts about bridging divides, uplifting Asian American voices, and writing. She recently completed a memoir manuscript that explores how our choices echo through time to create our lives, deaths, and legacies, and is represented by Annie Hwang at Ayesha Pande Literary.