Andrea Wang is the award-winning author of the picture books The Nian Monster (Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor), Magic Ramen (Freeman Book Award Honor), and Watercress .
She spent her childhood in Ohio and Boston and now lives in Colorado with her family..
Andrea likes to write about family, food, and culture.
She\'d much rather be a rock than smelly.
That sparked her lifelong interest in names and identity.
The first character in Andrea\'s Chinese name is an archaic one that means fragrant, but her parents\' friends all thought it was the character for jade, which sounds exactly the same.
The Many Meanings of Meilan is her debut middle-grade novel.
Andrea Wang is the award-winning author of the picture books The Nian Monster (Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor), Magic Ramen (Freeman Book Award Honor), and Watercress
