6/5/2023 0 Comments Vanessa len booksShe has a line in “Only a Monster” about how in films, the camera follows the hero after all the bad guys have been killed. She would notice that sometimes Asian characters would show up just for the fight scenes. However she did occasionally see herself represented in the ‘bad guys’ of the stories. While she was growing up, there was not a whole lot of representation of people that looked like her in the huge blockbuster action films and television series that she loved. Vanessa was originally inspired by the feeling when the hero of a story is not necessarily the hero of your story. She is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop in San Diego, and lives in Melbourne. Since she is an educational editor, she has worked on everything from language learning programs to STEM resources, to professional learning for teachers. Vanessa Len is an Australian writer of Maltese and Chinese-Malaysian heritage.
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