Grace Hwang Lynch is a Bay Area–based freelance writer with a focus on Asian American culture, food, and education. Her work has been featured on NPR, Public Radio International, NBC Asian America, and Shondaland, among other outlets, and anthologized in Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash and Word and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting.