Selina Li Bi
Author & Creativity Coach
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Cover credits: Illustrator: Xuan Loc Xua
Soho Teen designer: Janine Agro
Sunlight Playing over a Mountain
A mythology-tinged debut novel about a Chinese-Filipino teenager whose world of daydreams is destroyed by a family secret.
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Jasmine Cheng has grown up on stories spun by her beautiful, erratic mother. Together, they’re the Phoenix and Dragon. Jasmine’s father is the god Pangu, creator of the heavens and earth. Her mother may have boyfriends, but Jasmine chases them away. Because for her mother, love brings chaos, sleepless nights, and frightening episodes. It’s Jasmine’s job to keep their home life stable, especially now that a social worker has started to keep tabs on them.
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When the sudden arrival of Cal, her mother’s old flame, fractures their delicate world, a series of events unfolds that will send Jasmine on a cross-country journey to the West Coast—and into her past. Trapped in a tangle of fantasy and reality, Jasmine becomes determined to shatter the illusion for good, even as her mother’s refusal to be honest drives a deeper wedge between them.
Will the crack in their fantasy destroy her, or finally let the light in?
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Displaced
Poetry Chapbook
Displaced is a collection of poetry based on Selina Li Bi's experience as a second generation Asian American and the exploration of the dichotomy of cultures in which she was raised.
Nonwhite and Woman:
131 Micro Essays on Being
in the World
Edited by Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido
​​About the Anthology
Nonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology’s title is from Lucille Clifton's luminous poem, won’t you celebrate with me, which serves as the anthology’s epigraph. The poem's inclusion in the anthology is granted from Copper Canyon Press.