About

(she/they)

For publishing inquiries: Hannah Todd @ Janklow & Nesbit (UK)


For academic inquiries: LLU71@ucla.edu

For kidlit inquiries:
LLeoiWrites@gmail.com

I’m an author and literary scholar with a PhD in English. My academic research focuses on the long eighteenth-century novel, queer studies, and race. My fiction writing often explores themes such as Asian diaspora identities, queerness, and the Gothic. I edit creative pieces at MENT Magazine.

My fantasy debut, DEATH WISH, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2027.

I’m the recipient of the ASECS Women’s Caucus Intersectional Prize 2025 and the UCHRI Manuscript Workshop Grant 2025 – 2026.

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Selected Writing Highlights

“Expanding the Script: Ace Stories, Structures, and Perspectives in Publishing,” a roundtable for Bookish Brews, 2025.

“Time, a Tapestry; Me, a Weaver,” Garland, 2025.

“dandelion lights,” Heartlines Spec, March 2024. Nominated for Best Queer Spec Fic of 2024.

“Salt for a Tongue,” Yuzu Press, 2022.