Loan Le

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Loan Le is the author of A Phở Love Story, a YA rom-com that earned praise from NPR, POPSUGAR, Bustle, Bon Appetit, USA TODAY, and Buzzfeed. Solving for the Unknown, her next YA contemporary novel and a companion to A Phở Love Story, is slated for Spring 2025. Her speculative short story appeared in Firsts & Lasts, a YA anthology that Penguin Workshop released in Fall 2023. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from Fairfield University, where she also earned her bachelor’s degree. She is an editor at Atria Books, a Simon & Schuster adult imprint, where she acquires dark fiction. When Loan isn’t writing young adult novels, she’s writing ghostly, dark adult fiction, trying to make sourdough bread, and listening to BTS. Visit her website at writ ...more

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Loan Le I walk away.

For a short amount of time, that is. It's easy to get stuck in your world and not have a way out of it. You have to physically remove you…more
I walk away.

For a short amount of time, that is. It's easy to get stuck in your world and not have a way out of it. You have to physically remove yourself from your work. I listen to music. I dive back into a short story. I read. A lot.

Then, when I return, my mind feels lighter, and I can see a way out of that writer's block. (less)
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A Pho Love Story

3.67 avg rating — 21,230 ratings — published 2021 — 16 editions
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Solving for the Unknown

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The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
"Well this is a work of art. A page turner but also really sweet. Reminds me of divergent or the hunger games, but more esoteric and with time travel"
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"Wow, this was incredible. Beautifully written, emotional and heartbreaking. And a unique concept. This is one I will think about for a long long time. "
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"Think of a town set among mountains and valleys. Now imagine if you went to the valley to the west, you’d be in the same town, but 20 years into the future; and if you went to the valley to the east, it would be 20 years in the past. And these radiat" Read more of this review »
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“But in anything you love, isn’t there always some bit of sadness, some essence of suffering? That, to me, is what makes art worth it. Suffer through it—mine the emotions you keep inside yourself, face whatever’s emotionally burdensome, take control of it—then emerge reborn in the end.”
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“Think about what you want. What you want to make and add to the world.”
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“There’s so much in your life that you can’t control.… So maybe you can use this chance to do something for yourself.”
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