HOMER HSIEH

Homer Hsieh is a Taiwanese-American TV and screenwriter from San Diego. He specializes in science fiction and fantasy, often with dystopian elements, and has a knack for writing YA characters and dialogue.

While his true passion was always writing, originally inspired by his childhood love of anime and video game storytelling, Homer enrolled in UC Irvine initially as a computer science major to appease his parents, as many Asian-Americans in similar shoes were wont to do. He quickly discovered that it would be impossible for him to succeed in either his dream or his safety net while his heart and his focus weren’t aligned, so he switched his major to Film and Media Studies to go all-in in pursuit of a career in screenwriting. After graduating with a BA, he later went on to complete UCLA's Professional Screenwriting program and obtain a Screenwriting MFA at Hollins University.

Whether it be as an ABC growing up deep in the heart Texas or as an international school student in Taiwan, Homer knows what it's like to be considered a foreigner on both sides of the pond. His struggles along his journey as a writer paralleled his struggles to find his own cultural identity. For years, he resisted using his Asian-American story in his work under the pretense that it simply wasn’t what the industry was looking for. The recent boom of AAPI success and support in Hollywood finally encouraged him to embrace his roots, both in life and in his scripts, and it yielded practically instant results. He co-wrote "The Cannibal Market", a dark thriller that garnered general and pitch meetings with several production studios, and his latest solo pilot, "Abductees", landed him in the 2023 CAPE New Writers Fellowship.