Born in
Taiwan, Wu was raised in
Salisbury, Maryland. She graduated from
Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's degree in fictional literature. After college, she moved to
Los Angeles and was hired as an agency assistant. Her first job in film was as an editorial assistant post-production coordinator on
Danny Leiner's
The Great New Wonderful. She then segued to television; working as an assistant to executive producers on the
Syfy reboot
Flash Gordon. She later went on to become an assistant to
Matt Nix on
USA's
Burn Notice.
Hannibal In 2013, Wu interviewed for an assistant position on the
NBC Hannibal Lecter series
Hannibal, but was instead hired as a staff writer by developer
Bryan Fuller. Wu had previously written a pilot that was "a love letter" to Fuller titled
Memory Bank, which he read and led to her hire. She went on to contribute to two episodes of the series ("Entrée" and "Naka-Choko").
The Flash Wu serves as a writer on the
DC Comics produced
CW series
The Flash. Her first contribution to the series was co-writing, with co-creator
Geoff Johns, the first-season episode "Going Rogue", which introduces the supervillain
Captain Cold/Leonard Snart (
Wentworth Miller). She and Johns co-wrote the season's 10th installment, "Revenge of the Rogues", which saw the introduction of infamous rogue
Heat Wave, who teams up with Captain Cold and challenges
The Flash to a battle of fire and ice in an attempt to kill him and make him reveal himself to the world that he is real. She co-contributed, with
Brooke Eikmeier, the teleplay for the sixteenth episode, "Rogue Time", with a story by story editor
Grainne Godfree. She and Godfree re-teamed to co-pen the 18th installment "All Star Team Up"; which saw a crossover with sister-series
Arrow; and then the 21st installment, "Grodd Lives". In January 2015, Wu began writing, along with executive producer
Andrew Kreisberg and Lauren Certo, the prequel comic book series
The Flash: Season Zero. Wu was promoted to executive story editor with the commencement of season two. She first co-wrote the fourth episode, along with new staff writer Joe Peracchio, "The Fury of Firestorm". It introduced the new half of the titular hero,
Jax Jackson, and the first ever live action appearance by
King Shark. == References ==