Lydia Wei

Instructor

Lydia is so thrilled to be joining Writopia Lab as an instructor! She's long been part of the Writopia family; she first started attending workshops during middle school, and volunteered with Writopia throughout high school. She loves Writopia's friendly and supportive community and fun writing games—her favorite has always been Hot Laptop!

She's a recent graduate of Stanford University, where she earned her B.A. in American Studies with Honors in the Arts. She was also awarded the Maclin Bocock/Albert Guerard Fiction Prize and completed a Levinthal Tutorial in Fiction under Stegner Fellow Emma Binder. Her poetry has previously been recognized by the Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry, National YoungArts Foundation, Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, National Student Poets Program, and Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, among others, and published in The Adroit Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. During her free time, she loves line dancing, drawing, and looking at bonsai trees.