B B WEI

Author of The Swing-bed

 

B B Wei is a bilingual author in Chinese and English, who has published work among ten publications in the UK, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong and China in both languages. She was born and raised in Shanghai. At the age of fifteen, Wei published her first essay in the Shanghai Youth Newspaper. Her first novella was written when she was twenty-one years old and was published in the literary supplement of the World Journal (Asia Edition). You Lit Me Up also won the Novella of the Year Award. She was the first Chinese national reading English Literature at the University of Sussex in England in 1990s. Wei has worked as a journalist with Reuters Television and marketing executive with Dow Jones in Hong Kong. She currently resides among Hong Kong, Shanghai and San Francisco, managing her bilingual cross-cultural marketing consultancy. Wei has recently completed a novel in English about a coming of age story set in Shanghai in the 80-90s. She is working on her second novel also set in her birth-city. Email: bweib@yahoo.com

 

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