Born and raised in Queens, New York, Sylvia is an Asian American children’s book author, with her debut picture book TRICKY CHOPSTICKS recently published in 2024 by Atheneum/Simon & Schuster and newest picture book SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story published in December 2025 by Flamingo Books/Penguin Random House. As a former science fair competitor, Juilliard Pre-College piano alumni, statistics major at Columbia University, and avid researcher for both lab and market needs, her goal now is to craft picture books that spark kids’ interest in STEAM and creative thinking. She often stays up late into the night puzzling away with wordplay and working on quirky ideas. Visit her at sylviaichen.com or on Instagram/other social media @SylviaiChen.

Represented by Alyssa Eisner Henkin of Birch Path Literary.