Wudan Yan is an award-winning narrative journalist, fact-checker, and entrepreneur based in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, High Country News, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, Popular Mechanics and beyond. She is a multi-grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and has also received grants from UC Berkeley, the Institute of Journalism and Natural Resources, and the International Womens Media Foundation to support her work. On top of her editorial work, Wudan has founded two companies: The Writers’ Co-op, a business podcast and learning academy for freelance creatives, and Factual, a fact-checking agency.
In the early summer of 2022, I sat in my basement, surrounded by my laptop, five packing boxes and an absolute mountain of food. In a few weeks, I’d start my mo...
