Rin-rin is a writer, author, photographer, communications strategist, and award-winning magazine editor and television journalist who spent much of her career covering probably everything, including waterparks, kitchen trends, physical therapy, politics, restaurants, summer camps, corporate management, and travel. More recently, she has worked with several universities around the United States telling stories about students, professors, research, and other fascinating topics she thinks others would like to learn more about.

Born and raised in Westchester County, New York, Rin-rin spent her childhood writing a lot of fiction stories and playing the piano and flute. She always knew she’d end up being a writer even though she dabbled in a lot of other areas first like paralegal work and television news. She has lived in lots of places, including St. Louis, New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. She earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Washington University in St. Louis, a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University, and an MBA from the University of Southern California. Today, she lives with her husband, two kids, tropical fish and a sea urchin outside Washington, D.C. in Montgomery County, Maryland, and splits her time between D.C. and Durham, North Carolina.

Goodbye, French Fry is a work of fiction based completely on Rin-rin’s own childhood growing up in the suburbs of New York City. Her father worked for the United Nations and contemplated moving the family to one of the other UN offices around the world, and her close friend taught her lots of gymnastics moves in her backyard and at school. She had teachers and classmates who couldn’t pronounce her name, and a classmate who called her French Fry instead, for no good reason, for an entire summer. Growing up, she couldn’t find any books with American-born Chinese characters, and only a few for her own children, so she decided to write her own. Goodbye, French Fry is her first novel.