I'm Wen. I'm a writer, editor, and social media strategist with experiences across fashion, lifestyle, and information technology. With a people-first approach, I write great stories that drive conversation and sales.

☞ MA in Media Studies with a focus on New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

☞ Weekly newsletter I Told You So (2023 - Now).

☞ Words for Adolescent Content, Bobblehaus, bunq, Lithium Magazine, New Black, Refinery29, Scotch & Soda, TomTom, and more.

☞ Art shows at Beloit College (USA), Vondelbunker (The Netherlands), and Volto Concept Space (Greece).

SELECTED WORKS AVAILABLE HERE

*Updated on November 5, 2025.

BUNQ
BLOG
bunq Working Abroad Index 2025: Europe’s Cost of Living Finds Its Balance (November 4, 2025)
How to Plan Your Dream Honeymoon Without Breaking the Bank (October 30, 2025)
Lost in Translation: A Tokyo Travel Guide (October 23, 2025)
Meet Me in Istanbul: A Travel Guide (September 30, 2025)
Copenhagen Travel Guide: Everything You Can’t Miss (August 28, 2025)
72 Hours in Sofia: A Travel Guide (July 31, 2025)
Belgium Travel Guide: Explore Brussels, Bruges & Beyond (June 19, 2025)
Amsterdam Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (June 17, 2025)
How to Travel Safely: Smart Tips for a Secure Journey (April 17, 2025)
London Calling: Your Complete Guide to the City’s Best (April 15, 2025)
Spring Break on a Budget: Top Destinations for Students (April 10, 2025)
Barcelona Travel Guide: Everything You Can’t Miss (April 3, 2025)
Savings 101: How to Explain Savings to Your Child (March 27, 2025)
Paris Travel Guide: Everything You Can’t Miss (March 20, 2025)
How to Teach Your Kids About Money (March 13, 2025)
How Students Can Travel More, Spend Less With bunq (March 6, 2025)
Is Your Child Ready for a Bank Account? (February 27, 2025)
How to Plan The Perfect Couple’s Getaway with Ease (February 25, 2025)
The Student's Guide To Living (And Thriving) With Roommates (February 13, 2025)
Date Night on a Budget: Smart Spending Tips for Couples (February 6, 2025)
Studying Abroad? Here’s How to Set Up Your Finances in Europe (February 4, 2025)
10 Simple Money Challenges for Kids to Try in 2025 (January 21, 2025)
What Is a Joint Account and Is It Right for You? (January 16, 2025)
How To Unwind After a Business Trip (January 14, 2025)
Getting Started with bunq Business Accounts (January 7, 2025)
How A Child Savings Account Can Grow With Your Child’s Needs (December 24, 2024)
Top 5 Couple's Getaway Destinations (December 19, 2024)
5 Easy Ways to Save Money on Your Next Trip with bunq (December 17, 2024)
Saving or Investing for Your Child? What You Should Know (December 12, 2024)
The Ultimate Expat Financial Checklist: From Banking to Budgeting (December 10, 2024)
3 Reasons Why Sustainable Banking Is Here to Stay (December 5, 2024)
Tokyo on a Budget: Top Reasons to Visit Now (December 3, 2024, 2024)
How the 50/30/20 Rule Helps You Save Your Paycheck (December 3, 2024)
Turning Your Hobby into a Business: bunq Business Accounts (November 29, 2024)
Teaching Your Teen to Save for Phones, Shoes, and Games (November 26, 2024)
Accounting vs. Bookkeeping: Key Differences for Better Business Finances (November 21, 2024)
Your Holiday Planning Checklist with bunq (November 19, 2024)
Manage Your Money Abroad Effortlessly with bunq (November 14, 2024)
Make Business Travel Easier with bunq (November 12, 2024)
Discover the Best Spots and Activities in Town (November 7, 2024)
Ultimate Couple’s Guide to Managing Shared Expenses (November 5, 2024)
bunq Working Abroad Index 2024: What You Need to Know About Rising Costs in Europe (November 5, 2024)
Complete Guide to Building Financial Literacy With bunq Child Accounts (October 31, 2024)
How to Achieve Financial Stability as a Digital Nomad (October 24, 2024)
Understanding How bunq’s Travel Insurance Works (October 22, 2024)
Starting Your Own Business: A Step-by-Step Guide (October 17, 2024)
Essential Finance Tips for New Digital Nomads (October 15, 2024)
The Real Cost of Airbnb in Europe: Finding Your Ideal Stay (October 10, 2024)
Top 20 Essential Apps and Tools for Digital Nomads (October 8, 2024)
Part-Time Jobs vs. Freelancing: Which Path Is Right for You? (October 3, 2024)
Top Ways to Use bunq’s Virtual Cards (October 1, 2024)
8 Essential Apps and Websites Every Student Needs (September 26, 2024)
bunq Update 26: New Ways We’re Making Life Easy (September 25, 2024)
Why bunq Is the Best Bank for Digital Nomads (September 24, 2024)
Choosing the Right bunq Account for Your Needs (September 19, 2024)
Why You Should Get a Local IBAN (September 17, 2024)
9 Money-Saving Tips Every Student Should Know (September 12, 2024)
Top Digital Nomad Trends for 2025: Destinations & Visas (September 10, 2024)
Financial Literacy 101: Key Terms Every Student Should Know (September 5, 2024)
Your Path to Financial Stability as a Digital Nomad (September 3, 2024)
How to Be Financially Responsible as a Student (August 29, 2024)
Ultimate Guide to Finding Digital Nomad Jobs in 2024 (August 27, 2024)
8 Budget Hacks to Make the Most of Student Life (August 22, 2024)
How to Live, Work, and Thrive as a Digital Nomad (August 20, 2024)
Live and Work in Europe With a Working Holiday Visa (August 6, 2024)

BOBBLEHAUS
ARTICLE
A Toast to My Love Language (January 31, 2022)
Simu Liu: Nobody Does It Better (September 3, 2021)
The Witches of TikTok (August 9, 2021)
Hot Girl Boss Summer (July 7, 2021)
Normalize Writing About Your Exes (June 24, 2021)
Everything I've Done Except My Bachelor's Thesis (June 2, 2021)
The First Three Minutes of Lady Bird (May 5, 2021)
The Notion of Notion (April 16, 2021)
So... NFTs (April 9, 2021)
TikTok is Teaching Me How To Eat During Lockdown (March 30, 2021)
The Calculus of Disney Love Triangles (February 8, 2021)
Totally Spies! is Totally Right (January 27, 2021)
Rêveuse Vintage: Staying in Fashion (December 20, 2020)
A Stoop-by-Stoop Guide with @StoopingAms (November 16, 2020)
We're All Influencers Now (November 12, 2020)
Olivia Ojeda: Staying in Bloom (October 12, 2020)
The Gatekeepers of Depop (August 30, 2020)
So Your Family Is Racist (August 23, 2020)
Is Blood Thicker Than The Truth? (August 16, 2020)
Kevin Kwan Knows 'Sex and Vanity' Best (July 27, 2020)
Mask On, F*ck It, Mask *STILL* On (July 21, 2020)
Loveless in Quarantine (July 17, 2020)
The Eloquence of E-Girls and E-Boys (June 16, 2020)
My Quarantine Routine in Amsterdam (June 10, 2020)
To All The Asian Boys Lara Jean Didn't Love (May 23, 2020)
Why Did The Animals Cross (May 8, 2020)
Riding On The Tigertail (April 25, 2020)
We're All Friends on Facebook (March 18, 2020)
I Was Asked To Be A "Luxury Personal Shopper" (March 7, 2020)
The Long-Overdue Bubble Tea Emoji (March 2, 2020)
How (Not) To Sell Lunar New Year (January 28, 2020)
You Are Supposed To Be Asian (January 22, 2020)
What Your Spotify 2019 Wrapped Says About You (December 31, 2019)
What's Rich About Rich Brian (December 17, 2019)
Come Thrift With Me in Amsterdam (December 17, 2019)
How To Tell The People You Love To F*ck Off (December 17, 2019)
For The Diaspora, 'Home' Is A Choice (December 16, 2019)
Street Trends of Amsterdam (December 5, 2019)
A Night with Lizzo in Amsterdam (December 1, 2019)
Playing Dress-Up in My Brother's Closet (November 25, 2019)
What We're Binge-Watching Now (November 25, 2019)
Finding a Home In The City of Sin (November 25, 2019)

COLUMN
I Told You So: She's Just Not That Into You (October 21, 2021)
I Told You So: The Past Makes Him Tense (October 1, 2021)
I Told You So: Always a Softboi, Never a Gentleman (September 20, 2021)
I Told You So: Starting On The Wrong Foot (September 14, 2021)
I Told You So: When They're Too Good to be True (August 19, 2021)

ARTGENCE
ARTICLE
Together We’re Stronger: Grid Collective (February 2, 2021)

ADOLESCENT CONTENT
ARTICLE
I love me, but I love you more (December 10, 2020)
The desire and disdain for DTR (July 31, 2020)
He only liked me because I'm Asian (June 4, 2019)
A guide to my city: Amsterdam (April 30, 2019)
How I Spent Lunar New Year By Myself (February 29, 2019)
I only love you when my makeup is off (January 2, 2019)
I'll be home (December 27, 2018)
I just met you, yet I already know you: a testament to social media (November 20, 2018)
Feeling myself: The relationship between fashion and confidence (November 13, 2018)
A homesick guide to home (October 8, 2018)
What university students are ACTUALLY wearing (September 24, 2018)
"You're too dark": a discussion about Asia's shade range (September 6, 2018)
Unmatch, swipe again: why I left Tinder (August 7, 2018)
To ghost or not to ghost (July 9, 2018)
I Love You, Mom (June 25, 2018)
Picture-perfect romance: the logic behind couples' matching outfits (April 23, 2018)
I used to hate change (April 16, 2018)
Be Famous or Die Trying: 27 Club (April 9, 2018)
I'm an Asian atheist (March 27, 2018)
It's easier to live through a computer screen (March 22, 2018)
Are You Afraid of Dying Alone? An Analysis of Hook-up Culture (March 20, 2018)
How It Feels to be 18 during Chinese New Year (March 9, 2018)
Why Model United Nations Isn't Your Typical After-school Activity (March 6, 2018)
I bought my first fidget spinner at age 18—here's why (February 18, 2018)
I got rejected from my dream school—and it's okay (January 11, 2018)
What it's like when your parents have impossible standards (January 4, 2018)
Why it never pays to wonder who “settled” in your relationship (January 2, 2018)
How to deal with college rejections before they even happen (December 12, 2017)
I didn't use social media for a year... and I lost my mind (November 1, 2017)
We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together (Like, Ever): An Understanding of Toxic Relationships (September 24, 2017)

COLUMN
A freshman’s guide to colleges, academic decisions, and your future (July 1, 2019)
A freshman’s guide to friends and finding where you belong (May 15, 2019)
A freshman's guide to taking care of yourself (February 20, 2019)
A freshman's guide to drugs and alcohol (January 22, 2019)
A freshman’s guide to surviving and thriving in your studies (December 17, 2018)
A freshman’s guide to dating, hooking up, and knowing what you want (December 3, 2018)
A freshman's guide to being friends with your money (November 27, 2018)
A freshman's guide to dorms, decor, creating your own space (November 8, 2018)
A freshman’s guide to groceries, cooking, and meal planning (October 24, 2018)
What would Wen do About Love, part 5: Ted Mosby, serial monogamist (May 8, 2018)
What would Wen do About Love, part 4: everybody loves you, but nobody likes you (April 5, 2018)
What would Wen do About Love, part 3: third time's a charm? (March 31, 2018)
What would Wen do About Love, part 2: pride and prejudice isn't a good ship name (March 15, 2018)
What would Wen do About Love, part 1: blinding jewelry can’t hide the truth (March 2, 2018) ​​

REVIEW
The only way is up: a review of 88rising's group album "Head In The Clouds" (August 6, 2018)
Like a rock star: Post Malone’s "Beerbongs & Bentleys" (April 30, 2018)
A Lyrical Analysis of The Weeknd's "My Dear Melancholy," (April 12, 2018)
Fresh Off The Plane, Straight Outta Jakarta: Rich Brian’s Debut Project “Amen” (February 8, 2018) 

QUIZ
Pick one item to take to college and we'll tell you what to study (February 9, 2018)​

LITHIUM MAGAZINE
ARTICLE
The Desire and Disdain for DTR (April 8, 2020)
So, You Ran Out of First Dates (November 13, 2019)
Strung Along: How We Separated Our Dreams from Our Families' (September 18, 2019)
Let's Talk About Taiwanese Women (July 9, 2019)
What the University of Amsterdam is ACTUALLY like (June 5, 2019)
Becoming Bridget Jones (June 3, 2019)
Editor's Pick: He only liked me because I'm Asian (June 2, 2019)
​A Guide to My City: Amsterdam (April 29, 2019)
How I Spent Lunar New Year By Myself (February 29, 2019)
I Just Met You, Yet I Already Know You: A Testament to Social Media (December 3, 2018)
A Homesick Guide to Home (October 13, 2018)
I Love You, Mom (June 24, 2018)
I Used to Hate Change (April 29, 2018)
Why Model United Nations Isn't Your Typical After-school Activity (February 25, 2018)
Editor's Pick: How It Feels to be 18 during Chinese New Year (February 25, 2018)
I Got Rejected from NYU (January 28, 2018)
Adult Validations for Adolescents (December 31, 2017)
We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together (Like, Ever): An Understanding of Toxic Relationships (September 24, 2017)
I Conquered Solitude (February 27, 2017)
Online Persona: To Be or Not To Be (February 27, 2017)
近朱者赤，近墨者黑 (November 29, 2016)
I'll Never Be Seventeen Again (December 25, 2016)
My Thoughts on Conquering Solitude (October 30, 2016)
The Book That Changed My Life (July 4, 2016)
Is It Too Late (June 12, 2016)​​

INTERVIEW
Safiya Nygaard: Best of Both Worlds (August 27, 2017)
Lauren Tepfer: Growing Up (July 30, 2017)
Sydney Robinson: For The Soul (May 14, 2017)
Adam Conover: The Icon of Curiosity (January 29, 2017)
Joyce Hsieh: On The Rise (January 29, 2017)
Colleen Kelly: Social Media, 5SOS, Inspiration (December 25, 2016)

VISUALS
Stop Talking About It, Okay? (March 25, 2018)
Well, it's Senior Year (February 25, 2018)
Stills From A Movie That Doesn’t Exist: Nightmares in Paris (2017) (May 14, 2017)
Roses and Thorns (May 14, 2017)
I Never Learned How to Move On, So I Never Did (March 27, 2017)
Dodie Clark Tribute (February 27, 2017)
Unsent Texts: Turn a New Page (December 25, 2016)
Unsent Texts: Letting Go (November 29, 2016)​​

POETRY
I Never Learned How to Move On (January 29, 2017)
My Country Isn’t A Country (October 30, 2016)
First and Last: A Collection of Poems (September 25, 2016)
Where Are You From (March 27, 2016)​​​

PAIVE
ARTICLE
Your First Job Should Be In Retail—Here's Why (July 18, 2019)
5 Things You Should Do Before School Starts (July 12, 2019)
Fluehr & Joelle: The Dynamic Duo You Need (April 15, 2019)

CLOVER LETTER
FEATURE
​Wen Hsiao On Why Studying Abroad Is so Much More than Learning a New Language (September 7, 2017)​
Wen Hsiao On College Applications and the Pressure to Stand out (May 16, 2017)

PIER TO
FEATURE
Gotta Go Fast: The Weight of Emotional Baggage While Zooming through Class (October 8, 2020)

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
FEATURE
What Is the Best Sneaker, According to Gen Z? (August 27, 2020)
What Are Teens (and College Students) Actually Buying for Back to School? (August 25, 2020)
The Best Masks, According to Cool Teens (and College Students) (August 17, 2020)
The Best School-From-Home Clothes, According to Stylish Students (April 3, 2020)
The Best School-From-Home Essentials, According to Students (March 30, 2020)

AFTERSCHOOL
FEATURE
What Life Is Like Now (April 5, 2020)

REFINERY29
FEATURE
A Gen Z-Fueled Wish List Of The Coolest Holiday Gifts (December 15, 2019)
Gen Z Shoppers Spill Their Black Friday Wish List And It Involves Harry Styles (November 27, 2019

COPYCATTED
FEATURE
The Amsterdammer Who Found Holy Grail Jeans For $60 (September 29, 2019)

Wen lives in Amsterdam with her opossums from Build-a-Bear. If you want to discuss how The Social Network was snubbed at the 2011 Academy Awards, use the contact form here or email her directly.

Email: wenhsiaowh@gmail.com