Pik-Shuen Fung Explores the Multiplicity of Experience

July 22, 2021

For BOMB Magazine, Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, Ghost Forest, with Kyle Lucia Wu and explains how seemingly disparate emotions play a big role in her fiction. “I think juxtaposition affects every aspect of my creative process,” Fung says. “It wasn’t a conscious decision to include these disparate emotions, but I think that I’m always interested in the complexity of an experience, and the multiplicity of an experience. I don’t feel like I ever just feel one emotion at one time.”

is a writer and illustrator. She is the author of two illustrated books, Last Night's Reading (Penguin Books, 2015) and Sanpaku (Archaia 2018).