About

Sophia Hotung is a Hong Kong Eurasian writer, illustrator, and disability advocate. She is the creator behind The Hong Konger art collection and various children’s and adult fiction and non-fiction centred on Hong Kong.

 

Her artwork has been exhibited and sold at the Digital Art Asia, the Affordable Art Fair, Sotheby’s auction, and across various Hong Kong galleries including Oi Ling Antiques, Wyndham Social, and the Hong Kong Arts Collective.

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Sophia predominantly focuses on writing literary fiction that examines in-between identities within disabled, Eurasian, and women communities. She enjoys infusing her work with satire and social commentary of contemporary technological and political developments, and likes to borrow from and subvert other genres including thrillers, horror, and mystery.

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As a disability speaker, Sophia focuses on developing new ways for chronic illness patients and their communities to rethink invisible disabilities. Her December 2024 TEDx talk with Jessica Chan on invisible disabilities and visible differences has been selected as a TEDx Editor’s Pick and will be released later in 2025. The talk explores the taboos society has inadvertently constructed around medical limitations and offers new approaches to talking to, working with, and including disabled and differently abled people.

 

Sophia lives in San Francisco, where she is seeking literary representation for her writing. She continues to run her Hong Kong-based art business, Pangolin Society from abroad.