After thirty years as a corporate executive, Richard Lin recently retired when Covid-19 decisively taught him there is much more to life than struggling to get into a Zoom call at 2 am. He now focuses on writing, philanthropy, and his family of one extraordinary wife, three spirited kids, and nine frenetic hamsters.

Richard has just completed his first memoir in a series of four centered on themes of interracial romance, intergenerational immigrant conflict, and ethnic tensions in the US, China, and Taiwan. Richard also plans to craft an anthology of short stories regarding the Chinese young adult orphans that his wife, Cindy, and he have come to know, love, and support.

Richard’s stories, including excerpts from Arizona Awakening, have appeared in or are scheduled to appear in The Write Launch, The Dillydoun Review, Drunk Monkeys, Potato Soup Review, and other literary journals.

While he lived in Taipei, he wrote business and tech news columns along with Sunday morning lifestyle feature articles for The China Post, Taiwan’s most widely-circulated English-language daily. Richard has also starred in and directed community musical theater productions, including The Jungle Book, Smokey Joe’s Café, Pardon My Fish, and His Disciples (for which he wrote the book and lyrics).