Most writing sucks. I do my best to unsuck them, but my writing also sucks—though to a lesser extent, I hope.

Hi, I’m Yiu-On Li. Pretend that the first i is an o and the pronunciation should make sense. My name roughly translates to “bright, peaceful plum,” and not even my parents know what they were thinking (I asked).

(That’s me on the right or up above—sometimes it’s hard to tell my smiles from my grimaces.)

I’ve worked with newspapers, magazines, philanthropic organizations, and government agencies—sometimes to unsuck writing, sometimes to do a bit of writing myself, and sometimes both.

I studied computer engineering for two years before I graduated with a major in English and a minor in copyediting, because I love telling stories. They don’t have to be my own, either: I just love seeing stories out in the world, and hopefully someone will find them useful, even after you and I are gone. (And even after the robots kill us all.)

Head to my LinkedIn or my portfolio if you want to see what I’ve done before you commit.

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About the website

My favorite animal is the platypus. And “platypus” technically has three plural forms: the conventional “platypi,” the Merriam-Webster-approved “platypuses,” and the super-duper-formal Greek-derived “platypodes.” I thought I’d just smush all three of these plurals together to create a name as Simple™ as my own, prescriptivism be damned.