About the Author
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Brief Bio
Apple grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution and came to the US in 1989 in her 20s. She writes short stories, memoirs, and historical novels about her life and those of people she knows. Her goal is to enrich Asian American cultural heritage and history and to enhance cultural understanding and acceptance among all people.
In 2023, Apple published her debut book, Las Crosses, a memoir of the first eight months after she arrived in America from Beijing. It has gained recognition in categories of memoirs, women's non-fiction, multicultural non-fiction, and travel. In 2024, Apple released her first historical novel, Mother of Red Mountains, based on true events and people.
Apple also designed and published a self-help-related journal notebook. She co-edits the Voices Anthology Series with Georgia A. Popoff.
Apple is the mother and guardian of five children. She volunteers, is a friend to many, and has been a professor at Syracuse University since 1995. Apple is a USTA-rated tennis player and an award-winning amateur ballroom dancer. She loves hiking, traveling, movies, concerts, books, and cultural events.
Lengthy Bio
Apple has been a professor at Syracuse University since 1995. She was the first historian in her profession and a founding editor-in-chief. Over 30 years, she has published 200+ academic articles and three books. Her research has been cited 16,000+ times by scholars from many disciplines and around the globe. She has been acknowledged with 23 awards and recognitions for teaching, research, and service.
Apple started her literary journey in 2017 by taking courses at the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, NY. Her original goal was to write for her children to understand their heritage. After years of writing practice and gaining feedback from the instructors and fellow authors at DWC, her creative writing goal has been broadened to enrich Asian American cultural heritage and history and to enhance cultural understanding and acceptance among all people. She now writes short stories, memoirs, and historical novels about her life and those of people she knows. Her stories are based on true events and people.
In 2023, she published her debut memoir, Las Crosses: An Unwavering Journey to a New Life in America. The book has been among Amazon's best sellers in several categories including Biographies & Memoirs of Asian & Asian Americans, History of China, Asian American Demographic Studies, and Biographies of Educators. The book is selected as the finalist for the 2023 Annual Intendent Author Network (IAN) Books of the Year Award in the categories of women's non-fiction and multiple-cultural non-fiction. It also received the 2023 Outstanding Creator Award in the categories of Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoires (3rd place), Travel (3rd place), and Multicultural/Bilingual Books (2nd place).
Apple has kept a busy, productive, and mindful life with the help of her self-designed journal notebook that utilizes BuJo ideas. To benefit others with her own experience, in 2023, she published her journey notebook as a self-help life management tool, All-in-One Dotted Journal Notebook.
In 2024, Apple released her first historical novel, Mother of Red Mountains: A Novel of a Woman's Journey Through Revolutionary China, based on true events and people in China.
Apple also co-edits the Voices Heard Anthology Series with Georgia A. Popoff. The series is to provide a channel for writers affiliated with DWC to share their life stories and world views. Vol 1, 28 Voices, was published in June 2024. Vol 2 will be published in 2025.
Apple grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution and came to the US in 1989 in her 20s. She is the mother and guardian of five children. She is a USTA-rated tennis player and an award-winning amateur ballroom dancer. She loves hiking, traveling, movies, concerts, books, and cultural events.
email: Apple@AppleAnBooks.com.