Tracy Lum
Tracy Lum is a writer and software engineer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her nonfiction appears in Polygon, Bustle, HerStry, the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Entropy, and Little Old Lady Comedy. A Best of Net 2021 nominee, she is currently working on a novel inspired by her family's experiences in Manhattan's Chinatown.
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An American Name
My parents preferred to be surprised by the sex of their children at birth, so they kept two names on standby for me: Maximillian Spartacus if I was a boy, Tracy if I was a girl. I think we can all agree, for bullying mitigation purposes, it is better I was born female. Tracy is […]