Gen is an award-winning executive producer, film writer, and novelist. Her writings offer innovative plots and themes that inspire freedom and personal achievement. Her recent movie Noble Vision is a love story between a doctor and a dancer that is a cautionary tale of the dangers of mixing medicine with unchecked political power. Noble Vision has won over two dozen film-festival awards. Gen’s four novels have won thirteen literary awards, garnered praise from magazine magnate Steve Forbes, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, Past President of the American Medical Association Edward Annis, and others.
Gen has written the stage play adaptations of two of her novels, Just the Truth and Noble Vision.
Her commentaries have appeared in Forbes, The Orange County Register, Real Clear Markets, and other publications. Gen gives presentations on the role of fiction in portraying the important ideas that impact society. She now serves as president of the Winged Victory Foundation, whose mission is to advance liberty through storytelling and the arts.
Prior to fiction writing, Gen worked as a pharmaceutical chemist, business consultant, and corporate writer. She holds a B.S. in chemistry, cum laude, from Polytechnic Institute of New York (now New York University Tanden School of Engineering) and a M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University. Her variety of life experiences—in science and business, as well as in philosophy and writing—brings vibrant characters, urgent issues, thematic depth, and an outside-the-box approach to Gen’s stories. Their sweeping themes of self-sovereignty and the triumph of the individual attract thoughtful readers across social, political, and cultural divides.