Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer, and multimedia artist. Her book A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause is a lyric essay on the mime Marcel Marceau. She is currently a producer at Youth Radio. Her video work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Camden International Film Festival, and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University. She was born in Beijing, raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, and resides in San Francisco