Amber Hsu (徐碧莉//xúbìlì) is a Chinese-born, US-raised, UK-based writer, filmmaker, poet, and visual artist.

She has written for the BBC, the Royal Court Theatre, Islington Youth Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre Studio, and written and directed for Film London.

She is currently under commission with the Royal Shakespeare Company to adapt a Chinese Classic.

She is a graduate of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices Programme, The Royal Court Studio Group, and the BBC’s Writers Room London Voices group.  She also participated in a year-long, musical theatre lab residency run by the New Musical Development Collective in partnership with the Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Other Palace.

Amber is also the creator of Tiny Pencil – an artist-led anthology artzine and press dedicated to the lead arts, and the inventor of One Pound Poems — a live poetry project.

Once, she also worked in a morgue.

You can find her online at www.amberhsu.com, and on twitter @amberhsu