Abigail Hing Wen

Abigail Hing Wen (Chinese: 邢立美; pinyin: Xíng Lìměi; born 1977) is an American writer, film producer, director and speaker. Her debut young adult novel, Loveboat, Taipei, was purchased in a multi-house auction by HarperCollins in a two-book deal, along with Loveboat Reunion. It debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List where it remained for multiple weeks and has been adapted to the film Love in Taipei and released through Paramount+ as of August 10, 2023. On August 2024, Love in Taipei was released on Netflix.

Loveboat, Taipei follows the journey of an Asian American teen whose parents send her from Ohio to Taipei to study Mandarin for the summer at a program nicknamed Loveboat. It is a coming-of-age story exploring love, family, multifaceted identity and intersectionality. Wen's companion novel, Loveboat Reunion, follows two of the main characters from Loveboat, Taipei as they reconnect and write their own futures on a wild, unexpected reunion. The novel draws inspiration from Wen's work in Silicon Valley, with a girl trying to navigate her fashion interests and interests in AI. The third novel, Loveboat Forever, (November 7, 2023) is set six years later, and follows the gang and their community through new coming of age journeys.

Wen's latest novel, Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies, was released on August 13, 2024.

In February 2025, Deadline announced Lea Salonga will star in a short film prequel to Wen's forthcoming novel, The Vale (pub date September 2025). The short film is a hybrid live action and animated film written and directed by Wen, with John Aoshima (Annie nominated co-director of Ultraman: Rising) serving as animation director and Neil Blevins (Incredibles I, II, Wall-E, Up) serving as production designer. The Vale follows a struggling inventor family in Silicon Valley that creates a virtual reality world and explores questions about ethics and AI.

The Vale was featured in the World Journal in March 2025 in a piece titled "Lawyer Turns Author Explores the AI Virtual World".