Tria Wen

Author of
All of Us Wildflowers (Counterpoint, 2027)

Tria’s debut memoir, ALL OF US WILDFLOWERS, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in Spring 2027. It was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award, the Sue William Silverman Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Chautauqua Janus Prize. A California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellow, Tria has received support from Tin House, Hedgebrook, and VONA. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, and Narratively, among other places, and she has spoken at AWP, SXSW, on NPR, BBC, and multiple shows and podcasts about bridging divides, uplifting Asian American voices, and writing.

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Books BY Tria

All of Us Wildflowers (Counterpoint, 2027)

In the wake of her mother’s death, a young wedding planner explodes her marriage with a love affair. Torn between two lives, one that emulates her mother’s and another she cannot yet see, she turns to her mother’s journals for guidance. There, she’ll meet versions of her mother she never knew: a girl who left behind an entire self after immigration, an artist in the role of housewife, a woman who wanted more time. This discovery of her mother’s desires reawakens her own ambitions to be a writer and break the familial cycle of women living for others before themselves.

An expansive and compassionate inquiry into women’s relationships between their art and caregiving, this cross-generational memoir tenderly illustrates how the dreams of our loved ones can spring anew, blooming in ways you can’t predict, even after death.