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# Shawna Yang Ryan

(1999)   Writer

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Shawna Yang Ryan is a writer.

## Quick Facts About Shawna Yang Ryan

Born November 30, 1999

Profession Writer

## About Shawna Yang Ryan

Taiwanese American novelist... \| Shawna Yang Ryan is a Taiwanese American novelist, short story writer and creative writing professor, who has published the novels Water Ghosts (2009) and Green Island (2016). She taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

##  Quotes by Shawna Yang Ryan

> [“Now I understood there was something stronger than fate. Choice. It was ugly and quotidian and lacked romance, and that was exactly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawna-yang-ryan/now-i-understood-there-was-something-stronger-than-fate-choice-it-was/)

Shawna Yang Ryan

[Destiny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destiny/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b4/shawna-yang-ryan-86024_destiny_now-i-understood-there-was-something-str_44816.jpg)

> [“When I got older, I still thought I could write life. I didn't understand, as my mother had just realized that evening,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawna-yang-ryan/when-i-got-older-i-still-thought-i-could-write-life-i-didn-t/)

Shawna Yang Ryan

[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/388/shawna-yang-ryan-86024_life_when-i-got-older-i-still-thought-i-could_932416.jpg)

> [“Past, present, and future too swirl together, distinguishable but not delineated by any sort of grammar beyond the one our hearts impose.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawna-yang-ryan/past-present-and-future-too-swirl-together-distinguishable-but-not/)

Shawna Yang Ryan

[Grammar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grammar/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/shawna-yang-ryan-86024_past-present_past-present-and-future-too-swirl-togeth_2182771.jpg)

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