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Abigail Hing Wen
Abigail Hing Wen (Chinese: 邢立美; pinyin: Xíng Lìměi; born 1977) is an American writer, film producer, director and speaker. Her debut young adult novel, Loveboat, Taipei, was purchased in a multi-house auction by HarperCollins in a two-book deal, along with Loveboat Reunion. It debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List where it remained for multiple weeks and has been adapted to the film Love in Taipei and released through Paramount+ as of August 10, 2023. On August 2024, Love in Taipei was released on Netflix.
Loveboat, Taipei follows the journey of an Asian American teen whose parents send her from Ohio to Taipei to study Mandarin for the summer at a program nicknamed Loveboat. It is a coming-of-age story exploring love, family, multifaceted identity and intersectionality. Wen's companion novel, Loveboat Reunion, follows two of the main characters from Loveboat, Taipei as they reconnect and write their own futures on a wild, unexpected reunion. The novel draws inspiration from Wen's work in Silicon Valley, with a girl trying to navigate her fashion interests and interests in AI. The third novel, Loveboat Forever, (November 7, 2023) is set six years later, and follows the gang and their community through new coming of age journeys.
Wen's stand alone YA thriller/romantic comedy, Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies, was released on August 13, 2024.
In February 2025, Deadline announced Lea Salonga will star in a short film prequel to Wen's now NYT best selling novel, The Vale (pub date September 2025). The short film is a hybrid live action and animated film written and directed by Wen, with John Aoshima (Annie nominated co-director of Ultraman: Rising) serving as animation director and Neil Blevins (Incredibles I, II, Wall-E, Up) serving as production designer. The Vale follows a struggling inventor family in Silicon Valley that creates a virtual reality world and explores questions about ethics and AI.
The Vale was featured in the World Journal in March 2025 in a piece titled "Lawyer Turns Author Explores the AI Virtual World".
Abigail Hing Wen was born Abigail Geraldine Lim Hing in Wheeling, West Virginia, as a daughter of ethnic Chinese immigrants. She grew up in Solon, Ohio.
Wen attended Solon High School, where she was the valedictorian. She was selected as one of 120 U.S. Presidential Scholars, high school seniors invited to Washington, D.C., to meet then President Bill Clinton.
As a Presidential Scholar, she was invited by the Taiwanese government to attend the study tour program at Chien Tan, which eventually formed the setting of her first novel, Loveboat, Taipei. Wen studied at Harvard University, earning her B.A. magna cum laude in government and international relations. She wrote her senior thesis on China under Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. She served on the student governing board of the Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP).[citation needed] Wen earned her JD at Columbia Law School and MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, studying under Kathi Appelt, A.M. Jenkins, and Martine Leavitt.
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Abigail Hing Wen
Abigail Hing Wen (Chinese: 邢立美; pinyin: Xíng Lìměi; born 1977) is an American writer, film producer, director and speaker. Her debut young adult novel, Loveboat, Taipei, was purchased in a multi-house auction by HarperCollins in a two-book deal, along with Loveboat Reunion. It debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List where it remained for multiple weeks and has been adapted to the film Love in Taipei and released through Paramount+ as of August 10, 2023. On August 2024, Love in Taipei was released on Netflix.
Loveboat, Taipei follows the journey of an Asian American teen whose parents send her from Ohio to Taipei to study Mandarin for the summer at a program nicknamed Loveboat. It is a coming-of-age story exploring love, family, multifaceted identity and intersectionality. Wen's companion novel, Loveboat Reunion, follows two of the main characters from Loveboat, Taipei as they reconnect and write their own futures on a wild, unexpected reunion. The novel draws inspiration from Wen's work in Silicon Valley, with a girl trying to navigate her fashion interests and interests in AI. The third novel, Loveboat Forever, (November 7, 2023) is set six years later, and follows the gang and their community through new coming of age journeys.
Wen's stand alone YA thriller/romantic comedy, Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies, was released on August 13, 2024.
In February 2025, Deadline announced Lea Salonga will star in a short film prequel to Wen's now NYT best selling novel, The Vale (pub date September 2025). The short film is a hybrid live action and animated film written and directed by Wen, with John Aoshima (Annie nominated co-director of Ultraman: Rising) serving as animation director and Neil Blevins (Incredibles I, II, Wall-E, Up) serving as production designer. The Vale follows a struggling inventor family in Silicon Valley that creates a virtual reality world and explores questions about ethics and AI.
The Vale was featured in the World Journal in March 2025 in a piece titled "Lawyer Turns Author Explores the AI Virtual World".
Abigail Hing Wen was born Abigail Geraldine Lim Hing in Wheeling, West Virginia, as a daughter of ethnic Chinese immigrants. She grew up in Solon, Ohio.
Wen attended Solon High School, where she was the valedictorian. She was selected as one of 120 U.S. Presidential Scholars, high school seniors invited to Washington, D.C., to meet then President Bill Clinton.
As a Presidential Scholar, she was invited by the Taiwanese government to attend the study tour program at Chien Tan, which eventually formed the setting of her first novel, Loveboat, Taipei. Wen studied at Harvard University, earning her B.A. magna cum laude in government and international relations. She wrote her senior thesis on China under Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. She served on the student governing board of the Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP).[citation needed] Wen earned her JD at Columbia Law School and MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, studying under Kathi Appelt, A.M. Jenkins, and Martine Leavitt.
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