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Why Isabel Yap keeps coming back to fan fiction
Written by Oliver Emocling
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endIndex: In her debut story collection “Never Have I Ever,” Isabel Yap borrows from mythology and fan fiction conventions to craft narratives that remind readers of their humanity. Portrait by MEG WHITTENBERGER
In my conversation with the U.S.-based Filipino writer Isabel Yap, I found myself confessing to not pursuing personal writing projects. That all I could do after a long day of work is watch an episode of the volleyball anime “Haikyuu.”
“I love Haikyuu!” she says.
Yap, who is currently juggling writing (both fiction and her occasional Substack posts on her practice) and product management at a start-up in California, started watching “Haikyuu” during the second year of her MBA program at Harvard Business School a period where she had to grapple for time to write.