Michelle Zheng has been scribbling out stories on scrap paper since age five. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018 with a double major in economics and media studies & communications, and an incomplete theater minor. The latter was due to the fact she wanted to take Philip Kan Gotanda’s playwriting course over a generic introduction to theater in her final semester.
She was formerly a Sex on Tuesday opinion columnist for The Daily Californian, an independent student newspaper serving the UC Berkeley. Three of her columns appear on The Daily Californian’s most-read stories of 2017. She is currently working on a novella, Pyrite, a queer vampire urban fantasy influenced by Chinese-American history in California. In her spare time, she usually is getting more tattoos or role-playing a death-obsessed gnome druid raised by Treants in Dungeons and Dragons. She currently works in advertising analytics at a media corporation.
Weird sex stuff aside, she also loves baking, acting, all animals, spooky things, and screaming.
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