Jenn Chan Lyman is a fiction and non-fiction writer based in Shanghai working on her first novel, Frozen. Her articles have been featured in Tatler magazine (Hong Kong and Asia), IN magazine (Hong Kong), and Los Angeles-based Life In Stereo digital magazine. She also writes about music and jazz for AllAboutJazz.com, Urbanatomy.com, and That’s Shanghai magazine. Jenn has a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from Stanford University which is displayed in her living room inside a frame of flashing neon Santas. Before becoming a 24-7 writer, Jenn worked in corporate finance and investors relations for close to a decade. She's currently working on a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing at City University of Hong Kong.

Jenn's backstory is a typical early 80’s Hong Kong to L.A. immigrant tale. Love for words was firmly embedded in her young mind during weekends at the public library where air-conditioning was free. For Jenn, writing is rooted upon the divide between conscious and subconscious, cynicism and idealism, reality and illusion, a teetering between contrasts on the floating ledge of perspective. Inspired by Shanghai’s metropolitan mélange, Jenn produces random acts that tickle the mind and ruffle the spirit into a fevered frenzy. 

Other than writing and reading, Jenn deluges herself with movies, TV shows, live music, and all sorts of fun-filled shenanigans. Her favorite color is puce.