Notable works The 228 Legacy | Education Cornell University | |
Pen name J.J. Chow, Jennifer Chow Occupation novelist, fiction writer Nationality US (Taiwanese American) Alma mater Cornell University,
UCLA Genre Novel, short story, flash fiction Books The 228 Legacy, Dragonfly Dreams | ||
Jennifer Chow or Jennifer J. Chow, is a Taiwanese American novelist and fiction writer, who wrote the novel The 228 Legacy (2013), the mystery novel Seniors Sleuth (2015) (under a pseudonym, "J.J. Chow") and the young adult novel Dragonfly Dreams (2015).
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Background
Chow received her Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a Master's degree in Social Welfare from UCLA (the University of California, Los Angeles). She has performed geriatric work with the elderly, which has influenced her stories. She also currently lives in Los Angeles.
Novels
Chow's debut novel was The 228 Legacy (2013), published by Martin Sisters Publishing, which concerns three generations of females in a Taiwanese American family living in Los Angeles during the 1980s, who each closely guard their personal secrets. The novel was a Honorable Mention in the 2015 San Francisco Book Festival, made the Second Round of the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and a 2013 Finalist in the IndieFab/ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award.
Chow's next novel was a mystery entitled Seniors Sleuth (2015), published by the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, the first installment in her "Winston Wong Cozy Mystery" series. The book is about a former video game tester named Winston Wong, who attempts to solve a crime that takes place in his senior home, being inspired by Encyclopedia Brown. The novel was a 2015 CLUE Award Finalist, and a 2015 Runner-Up for the Beach Book Festival. Chow also wrote the book under the pseudonym "J.J. Chow."
The third novel from Chow is a young adult novel entitled Dragonfly Dreams (2015), published by Booktrope Editions. It is a supernatural story centering around a young 17-year-old female protagonist named Topaz Woo.
Short Fiction
Chow has published a short story entitled "Love Is Fragile" in the February 2016 issue of Over My Dead Body magazine. She has also published two flash fiction stories - "Gratitude" and "Hey Beautiful" in the July 2015 issue of Hyphen Magazine. Chow also published another flash fiction piece entitled "The Delicate Lotus" in the March 2015 issue of YAY! LA Magazine, her short story "The Red Book" in the April 2013 issue of Mouse Tales Press, and a flash fiction piece entitled "Look Again" in the March 2013 issue of Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, which was anthologized in the best submissions print anthology spanning stories from 2012 to 2013.
Other Accolades
Chow has also won second place in The Sacrifice Anthology Contest, an honorable mention in the Project Keepsake Contest, earned finalist standing in the Writer Advice’s 7th Annual Flash Prose Contest, and was also an honorable mention in the 2012 Whispering Prairie Press Writers Contest.