Tracey Lien

About Tracey Lien

When she was a child, she wasn’t all that much of a reader, which she is embarrassed to even admit. Instead she watched a ton of television, shows like “Huey’s Cooking Adventures”, “The Ricki Lake Show”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, and “Judge Judy”. There was even a brief phase of Jerry Springer. Tracey attributes this to growing up in a house where there weren’t too many books, since her parents are fluent in Chinese and Vietnamese, just not English, although she does know a lot of children of refugees that were voracious readers. So she would chalk all of this up to the fact that these daytime TV shows scratched her storytelling itch for her. They were scandalous, dramatic, and easily accessible, and while she was a kid she didn’t think to look anyplace else f