Shirley Huey

Title: Contributing Writer

Location: San Francisco, California

Education: University of California, Berkeley; NYU School of Law

Expertise: Chinese cuisine, Chinese home cooking, healthy comfort foods, California food

Experience

Shirley Huey is a Chinese American writer, editor and poet living in San Francisco. She writes at the intersection of place, food, culture and identity to understand and illuminate stories that remain untold, explore intergenerational relationships and capture the beauty and challenge of healing from trauma inflicted by migration, assimilation, racism and patriarchy.

​Shirley's prose and poetry has been featured in several publications, and in 2021 she co-created and edited Lunchbox Moments, a zine presenting stories and art showcasing Asian American identity through the lens of food. Shirley has read her work throughout the Bay Area, and she is currently working on a memoir in essays.