Yvonne Liu-Writer & Mental Health Advocate
@YvonneLiuWriter
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James Patterson Grant. 3M+ read @HuffPost essay. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholar. @PENAmerica & Bread Loaf support. @nytimes Modern Love podcast. Memoirist.
Joined February 2019
It’s the anniversary of my #NYTimes Tiny Love Stories, the beginning of my public journey to share my truth about #adoption #mentalillness & childhood #trauma. Writing short pieces has helped me to write my #memoir. #adopteevoices #adoptee #adoptees #writer #writing
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Thankful for my essay on domestic violence in HuffPost. It was read by over 275,000 people, including in Asia. So many contacted me to share that they had a similar childhood.
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"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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This Thanksgiving week, I’m especially grateful for • The friends I’ve made here and at in-person writing events • 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.
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A terrific episode with the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and many other bestsellers.@david_perel @MitchAlbom
https://t.co/OTjGhw77nY.
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Podcast Episode · How I Write · 08/10/2025 · 1h 38m
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Thank you @WritingWorkshops and @CourtneyKocak 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.
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Honored to serve as the moderator of a workshop, “Understanding Neurodiversity: Why Does It Matter.” Our speaker spoke on autism and ADHD. As someone with ADHD, the program helped me understand myself better and reminded me how important it is to create spaces of empathy and
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Warmest congrats!!
Honored that my @LAParentMag piece “Grappling with Parental Guilt” was awarded a Silver Award in the General Feature Writing category from @parentingmedia! It was also one of 4 pieces mentioned in LA Parents’ Gold Award in Overall Writing! TY! 🧵 https://t.co/PtFCHcFXpk
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Excited to attend the @aaja Rosemead screening next week with @LucyLiu @frankshyong @josie_huang. Shame and 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
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Such a great episode!!
“One of the things writing can do is get to the pain. Much of that pain comes from places where there should be love.” Our sit-down with novelist Salman Rushdie. https://t.co/AXpUtuWBLD
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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.
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Honored that my @HuffPost essay about the domestic violence behind a model minority facade was included in @saribotton's Memoir Mondays, “a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web.” @HPAsianVoices @HuffPostWomen
https://t.co/YP8Sqs4Zzh
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"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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Reposting on Adoptee Remembrance Day 🙏
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It’s the anniversary of my #NYTimes Tiny Love Stories, the beginning of my public journey to share my truth about #adoption #mentalillness & childhood #trauma. Writing short pieces has helped me to write my #memoir. #adopteevoices #adoptee #adoptees #writer #writing
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Thrilled that my second New York Times Tiny Love Stories published during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sadly, women of color get mammograms at lower rates that others and yes, young women get breast cancer. I was 30.
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"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."
💜 27.2% of Asian or Pacific Islander women 💜 42.1% of Hispanic women 💜 53.6% of Black women 💜 57.7% of American Indian or Alaska Native women 💜 63.8% of multi-racial women #DVAM #Every1KnowsSome1
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Why I Kept My Breast Cancer Secret for 28 Years https://t.co/cXmkfbte3J
#breastcancer #BreastCancerAwareness #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #cancer
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I’m the author. We won’t be silent any more!!!
"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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