My student Eileen Yoo just won a Silver Key for her story “Sunday Dresses” in Scholastic’s 2024 Writing Contest. Her earlier story “Midfielder” was published in Stone Soup’s June 2023 issue, and is linked here, along with her first Stone Soup story, “The Meadow” (published in 2022).
Bio
sue-lynn zan was born in Elizabeth, NJ and grew up in Edison and Ridgewood, NJ. She got closer to the pastoral life when studying at Cornell, then had her first introduction to the NYC publishing world as an intern at Sanford J. Greenburger for agents who discovered Nicholas Sparks that year. sue-lynn submitted a short story she wrote at 21 to a blind ad in the Village Voice that landed her a job interview at the New Yorker magazine office and words of praise from its staff.
After doing jobs in book inventory at Farrar Straus & Giroux in NYC and freelance journalism in China, sue-lynn completed an MFA in Filmmaking at NYU where she worked on approximately forty short film projects and a few features, in varying roles. Many of these won awards. Previous to that she had also worked on about ten other film projects in NYC and China.
sue-lynn later completed a Master’s in English Literature at Columbia, where Colm Toibin sponsored her thesis, and Edward Mendelson joined as one of her evaluators. In September 2024, she completed a 2-year Master’s in French Literature at Sorbonne University with a focus on 19th-20th century literature and cinema. She wrote two mémoires under the direction of Bernard Vouilloux and Christophe Pradeau, while Matthieu Vernet chaired her M2 thesis defense. sue-lynn hopes to publish these writings and more between teaching and developing new creative writing and film projects.
sue-lynn zan is the pen name of Wendy Cheng.
Recent articles:
https://www.cineaste.com/summer2020/from-minimalism-to-neorealism-boris-frumin-interview
Please note that my webpage cover photo is a picture I took of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, North Carolina. Bio first published here in April 2021.
Ridgewood, NJ