Sonia Hu

Sonia Hu is a New York–based writer, poet, producer, publisher, and filmmaker. Born in Beijing to a Shanghai family, she moved to the United States in the late 1980s and earned her master’s degree in Television Production from Brooklyn College, CUNY. She previously worked with major broadcasters including CCTV, CBS, and MTV, and served as a producer for MTV Asia, where she created Village of Heavenly Sound, the first music television program produced in mainland China.

Her nonfiction, essays, fiction, and poetry have been widely published in overseas Chinese media and collected by the Harvard-Yenching Library. She is the author of several award-winning books, including Reminiscence of Fleeting Time, Shanghai Forever Lost, and New York Stories.

Her documentary From Stone to Stone has received international recognition, winning Best First Time Filmmaker at the 2025 Munich Short Film Awards and Best Director at the 2024 Berlin Indie Film Festival.

Sonia’s work centers on biographical literature and narrative nonfiction. She combines a rigorous historical sensibility, precise character rendering, and a deep command of narrative structure to create a vivid dialogue between individual lives and the broader currents of history. Her creative practice also extends to poetry, fiction, essays, and documentary filmmaking, reflecting a multidimensional engagement with both literary expression and visual storytelling.