Mengxi Seeley

Mengxi Seeley is a 1.5 generation immigrant born in China, raised in Utah, now living in Virginia. She has an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and a BA in international relations from Brigham Young University. After working for many years as an academic translator, she now writes novels inspired by history, but with fantastically happy endings. Her debut novel, Silk and Sensibility (Shadow Mountain, 2026), received a starred review from Booklist.