This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of

Asian American literature Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent. Asian American literature became a category during the 1970s but didn't see a direct impact in viewership until later in the 1970s. Perhap ...

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Shaila Abdullah Shaila Abdullah (born 1971) is a Pakistani-American author, writer, and designer. Life Shaila Abdullah has received the Patras Bukhari Award for English Language, the Golden Quill Award, the Reader Views Award, the Written Art Award, and a gr ...

Aria Aber Aria Aber (born 1991) is a poet and writer based in Oakland, California. Life Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. Her poems have appeared in ''The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review''. Aber has received awards ...

* George Abraham *

Jessica Abughattas Jessica Abughattas is an American poet. Her debut poetry collection, ''Strip'', was the winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and was published by University of Arkansas Press. Abughattas is of Palestinian heritage and was born and raised in Cali ...

Dilruba Ahmed Dilruba Ahmed is an American writer, educator, and poet of Bangladeshi descent. Her work was selected by Major Jackson for ''The Best American Poetry 2019''. Early life Dilruba Ahmed was born in the United States and grew up in western Pennsyl ...

, poet *

Maya Ajmera Maya Ajmera is the president and CEO of Society for Science and publisher of ''Science News''. Ajmera is the founder of The Global Fund for Children, a nonprofit organization that invests philanthropic capital in innovative community-based organ ...

Meena Alexander Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished P ...

Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-born poet who immigrated to the United States, and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. His collections include ''A Walk T ...

Kazim Ali Kazim Ali (born April 5, 1971) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. His most recent books are ''Inquisition'' (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) and ''All One's Blue'' (Harper Collins India, 2016). His honors include an Individua ...

Noel Alumit Noël Alumit is an American novelist, actor, and activist.Emmanuel S. Nelson, ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009. . p. 21. He was identified as one of the Top 100 Influential Ga ...

Mia Alvar Mia Alvar is a Filipino-American writer based in New York. She won a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for ''In the Country''. Life Alvar was born in Manila and at six moved to Bahrain with her parents, joining her uncle already living there. After ...

Hala Alyan Hala Alyan (born July 27, 1986) is a Palestinian-American writer, poet, and clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, addiction, and cross-cultural behavior. Her writing covers aspects of identity and the effects of displacement, particul ...

Ryka Aoki Ryka Aoki is an American author of novels, poetry, and essays. She teaches English at Santa Monica College and gender studies at Antioch University. Her work includes the poetry collections ''Seasonal Velocities'' and ''Why Dust Shall Never Se ...

Fatimah Asghar Fatimah Asghar is a South Asian American poet, director and screenwriter. Co-creator and writer for the Emmy-nominated webseries '' Brown Girls'', their work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''BuzzFeed Reader'', ''The Margins'', ''The O ...

* Aziz Ansari *

Gina Apostol Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol (born 1963) is a Filipino-born writer based in the United States. Early life and education Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol was born in Manila the second child of her mother, Virginia. She grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, whe ...

Gaiutra Bahadur Gaiutra Bahadur is a Guyanese-American writer. She is best known for '' Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture,'' which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2014. Early life Bahadur was born in New Amsterdam, East Berbice-Corentyne in rural ...

Shauna Singh Baldwin Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962) is a Canadian- American novelist of Indian descent. Career Baldwin was born in Montreal, Quebec. She holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her 2000 novel ''Wh ...

* Peter Bacho,

American Book Award The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...

winner for the novel ''

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Ravi Batra Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra (born June 27, 1943) is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, ...

Cathy Bao Bean Cathy Bao Bean () is a Chinese-American writer and educator, and is the author of ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual'' (We Press, 2002). She lives in Frelinghuysen Township, New Jersey, with her husband, artist Bennett Bean. ' ...

(包圭漪) * Susham Bedi * Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪) *

Rick Barot Rick Barot (born February 19, 1969) is an American poet and educator. Life Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He ha ...

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (; born October 5, 1947, in Beijing, China) is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language poets, Language School, the poetry of the New York School (art), New York ...

(白萱华), poet listed in Amy Ling's bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990. *

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is an author and editor of 20 books. She co-founded PAWWA or Philippine American Women Writers and Artists; and also founded Philippine American Literary House. Brainard's works include the World War II novel, ''When th ...

Sujata Bhatt Sujata Bhatt (born 6 May 1956) is an Indian poet. Life and career Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she immigrated to United States with her family. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, ...

Jaswinder Bolina Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet. He is the author of the chapbook ''The Tallest Building in America'' (2014) and a book of essays ''Of Color'' (2020). His full-length poetry collections are ''Carrier Wave'' (2007); ''Phantom Camera'' (2013), ...

* Jenny Boully * Carlos Bulosan *

Regie Cabico Regie Cabico is a Filipino American poet and spoken word artist. He has been featured on two seasons of ''Def Poetry Jam'' on HBO (produced by Russell Simmons) and has been called the Lady Gaga of spoken word. He is an "out and proud" gay man. L ...

* Lan Cao * Celso Al Carunungan *

Linda Ty Casper Linda Ty Casper (Malabon, 1931) is a Filipino writer. She is a recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award. Life Born as Belinda Ty in Malabon, Philippines in 1931, she spent the World War II years with her grandmother while her father worked in the Ph ...

* Gilbert Luis R. Centina III * Steph Cha *

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Theresa Hak Kyung Cha ( ko, 차학경; March 4, 1951 – November 5, 1982) was an American novelist, producer, director, and artist of South Korean origin, best known for her 1982 novel, ''Dictee''. Considered an avant-garde artist, Cha w ...

Jeffery Paul Chan Jeffery Paul Chan (August 19, 1942 – January 11, 2022) was an American author and scholar. He was a professor of Asian American studies and English at San Francisco State University for 38 years until his retirement in 2005. Biography Chan w ...

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Rajiv Chandrasekaran Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at ''The Washington Post'', where he has worked since 1994. Life He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, w ...

Jay Chandrasekhar Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968) is an American comedian, film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his work with the sketch comedy group Broken Lizard and for directing and starring in the Broken Lizard ...

, screenwriter *

Diana Chang Diana Chang (; 1924 – February 19, 2009) was a Chinese American novelist and poet. She is best known for her novel ''The Frontiers of Love'', one of the earliest novels by an Asian American woman. She is considered to be the first American-born ...

(張粲芳), novelist * Eileen Chang (张爱玲) *

Iris Chang Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, '' The Rape of Nanking'', an ...

(張純如) *

Jennifer Chang Jennifer Chang is an American poet and scholar. Life and career Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She earned a BA from the University of Chicago in 1998, and an MFA from University of Virginia in 2002, where she returned to pursue a PhD a ...

* K-Ming Chang * Lan Samantha Chang * Leonard Chang *

Tina Chang Tina Chang is an American poet, professor, editor, organizer, and public speaker. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. Early life Chang was born in 1969 in Oklahoma to Taiwanese immigrants, who had met in Montreal, where her mother ...

* Lisa Changadveja * Bonnie Chau *

Maneet Chauhan Maneet Chauhan (born 27 October 1976 in Ludhiana, Punjab) is an Indian American chef and television personality. Previously the Executive Chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago, Nashville, and New York, she is featured as a judge on ''C ...

Daniyal Mueenuddin Daniyal Mueenuddin ( ur, ) (born 1963) is a Pakistani-American author who writes in English. His short story collection '' In Other Rooms, Other Wonders'', has been translated into sixteen languages, and won The Story Prize, the Commonwealth Wri ...

, author * Cathy Linh Che * Alexander Chee *

Anelise Chen Anelise Chen is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She was named "5 under 35" by the National Book Foundation in 2019. Her first novel, ''So Many Olympic Exertions,'' was published in 2017 by Kaya Press and was named one of the best boo ...

Justina Chen Justina Chen (born 1968 in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania) is a Taiwanese-American fiction writer and executive communications consultant. She is best known for her young-adult fiction, especially ''North of Beautiful'' (2009), ''A Blind Spot for Boy ...

* Su Hua Ling Chen (凌叔华) *

Nien Cheng Nien Cheng or Zheng Nian (January 28, 1915 – November 2, 2009) is the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan (). She was a Chinese author who recounted her harrowing experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir ''Life and Death in Shanghai ...

(郑念) * Anna Chennault (陈香梅) *

King-Kok Cheung King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA. Cheung grew up on Hong Kong Island. Cheung received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Ca ...

* Cheng Sait Chia *

Fay Chiang Fay Chiang (January 27, 1952 – October 20, 2017) was an American poet, writer, visual artist and activist based in New York City. Personal life Chiang was born in The Bronx in 1952. She grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens and later lived in ...

* Monlin Chiang (蒋梦麟) *

Ted Chiang Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the ...

, Hugo and Nebula Award winner *

Frank Chin Frank Chin (born February 25, 1940) is an American author and playwright. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Asian-American theatre. Life and career Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California on February 25, 1940; until the age of s ...

(趙健秀) * Justin Chin *

Marilyn Chin Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American poet, writer, activist, and feminist, as well as an editor and Professor of English. She is well-represented in major canonical anthologies and textbooks and her work is taught all over the ...

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Mei Chin Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin. Her short stories have appeared in ''Fiction (magazine), Fiction'' and ''Bomb (magazine), Bomb'' magazines and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane. ...

* Staceyann Chin * Frank Ching *

Kah Kyung Cho Kah Kyung Cho (June 7, 1927 – January 15, 2022) was a Korean-American philosopher. He specialized in Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, contemporary German philosophy, and east–west comparative philosophy. He had work ...

, philosopher *

Khendum Choden Khendum Choden is a poet, author, and the first Bhutanese Ph.D. graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She is the daughter of a diplomat from the Kingdom of Bhutan and has also lived in Bangladesh, India and the United States. She ...

Don Mee Choi Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator. Life Don Mee Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea and now lives in Leipzig, Germany. In addition to her own poetry, she is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including sever ...

Susan Choi Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Early life and education Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother. She attended public schools. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her m ...

* Roshani Chokshi *

Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra (; ; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternati ...

Louis Chu Louis Hing Chu (雷霆超) (October 1, 1915 – 1970) was an American writer who was a pioneer of Asian American literature. His only published work is the 1961 novel ''Eat a Bowl of Tea.'' After emigrating to New Jersey from Taishan, China, Chu ...

(雷霆超), author of ''

Eat a Bowl of Tea ''Eat a Bowl of Tea'' is a 1961 novel by Louis Chu. It was the first Chinese American novel set in Chinese America. Because of its portrayal of the "bachelor society" in New York's Chinatown after World War II, it has become an important wor ...

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Wesley Chu Wesley Chu (朱恆昱) (born September 23, 1976, in Taipei) is a #1 New York Times Bestselling speculative fiction author. He was originally raised by his grandparents in Taiwan while his parents were studying in the United States. In 1982, he ...

(朱恆昱), science fiction writer * Frances Chung * Philip W. Chung, playwright * Peter Ho Davies *

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla is an American writer. He is most famous for his novel ''Ode to Lata'' published in 2002, that was adapted to a film in 2008 under the title ''The Ode''. He has also published the novel ''The Two Krishnas'' in 2011, which ...

* Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni * Dinesh D'Souza, conservative journalist *

Tony D'Souza Tony D'Souza is an American novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer, travel, and short story writer. He has published three novels with the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt including: ''Whiteman'' (2006), ''The Konkans'' (2008), and ''Mule'' ...

Bei Dao Bei Dao (, born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: ''Zhào Zhènkāi''). Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation, he is often regarded as a candida ...

Oliver de la Paz Oliver de la Paz is an American poet and educator. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including ''Requiem for the Orchard'' ( University of Akron Press, 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry. His honors include a 2005 New York Fo ...

* Margaret Dilloway, author of '' How To Be An American Housewife'' (2010) * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni * Do Nguyen Mai, poet

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* Fan Wu (吴帆) *

Nancy Yi Fan Nancy Yi Fan (born August 26, 1993 ) is a Chinese American author who is best known for writing a series that currently consists of the novels '' Swordbird'', '' Sword Quest'', and '' Sword Mountain''. Biography Fan was born in Beijing, China ...

(范禕) *

Sui Sin Far Sui Sin Far (, born Edith Maude Eaton; 15 March 1865 – 7 April 1914) was an author known for her writing about Chinese people in North America and the Chinese American experience. "Sui Sin Far", the pen name under which most of her work was pu ...

(水仙花), a.k.a. Edith Maude Eaton *

Ben Fee Ben Fee (张恨棠/木云) (September 3, 1908 – July 3, 1978) was an American writer and labor organizer who rose to prominence in the Chinatowns of San Francisco and New York in the mid-twentieth century. He was president of the Chinese Workers ...

(张恨棠/木云) * Jamie Ford *

Eugie Foster Eugie Foster (December 30, 1971 – September 27, 2014) was an American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories were published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including '' Fantasy Magazine'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', ' ...

, Nebula Award winner *

Sesshu Foster Sesshu Foster (born April 5, 1957) is an American poet and novelist. Sesshu Foster is a Japanese-American poet of white and Nisei descent. He grew up on Los Angeles’ East Side and came of age in the primarily Chicano neighborhood of City Ter ...

* Francis Fukuyama * M. Evelina Galang * Sarah Gambito *

V.V. Ganeshananthan V. V. "Sugi" Ganeshananthan (born 1980) is an American fiction writer, essayist, and journalist of Sri Lankan Tamils, Ilankai Tamil descent. Her work has appeared in many leading newspapers and journals, including ''Granta'', ''The Atlantic Monthl ...

Anu Garg Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker. He is also the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 195 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several book ...

* Atul Gawande * Tess Gerritsen *

Alex Gilvarry Alex Gilvarry (b. 1981 on Staten Island, NY) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels ''From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant'' (2012) and ''Eastman Was Here'' (2017). In 2009, Gilvarry graduated from CUNY - Hunter College's MFA ...

* Anchee Min *

Zulfikar Ghose Zulfikar Ghose (March 13, 1935 – June 30, 2022) was a Pakistani-American novelist, poet and essayist. His works are primarily magical realism, blending fantasy and harsh realism. Biography Born in Sialkot, Punjab, which was in British India be ...

* Khalil Gibran *

Eugene Gloria Eugene Gloria (born 1957) is a Filipino-born American poet. Life Eugene Gloria was born in Manila, Philippines in 1957 and raised in San Francisco, California. He attended St. Agnes School in the Haight-Ashbury and St. Ignatius College Preparator ...

Prince Gomolvilas Prince Gomolvilas (born August 28, 1972) is a Thai American playwright. He has written many plays which have been produced in the United States and won several distinctive awards, including a PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama. He was ...

* Philip Kan Gotanda *

Vince Gotera Vince Gotera (; born June 20, 1952) is an American poet and writer, best known as Editor of the ''North American Review''. In 1996, Nick Carbó called him a "leading Filipino-American poet of this generation"; later, in 2004, Carbó described hi ...

Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
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Kovid Gupta Kovid Gupta (born 1988) is an Indian-American author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and social activist. He is best known for his non-fiction books '' Kingdom of The Soap Queen: The Story of Balaji Telefilms'' and '' Redrawing India: The Teach For ...

Ganggang Hu Guidice Ganggang Hu Guidice (, born March 23, 1984) is a Chinese author and artist living in Georgia, United States. Biography Guidice was born in Beijing, China. Her grandfather, Guogang Hu, was a dance theorist and choreographer, and her second ...

（胡剛剛） * Han Suyin (韩素音） *

Jessica Hagedorn Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn (born 1949) is an American playwright, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist. Biography Hagedorn is an American of mixed descent. She was born in Manila to a Scots-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a Spanish Fi ...

* Kimiko Hahn *

Sarah Haider Sarah Haider is a Pakistani-American writer, public speaker, and political activist. She created the advocacy group Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA), which seeks to normalize religious dissent and to help former Muslims leave the religion ...

Usha Haley Usha C. V. Haley is an American author and academic, currently W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair of International Business and Professor of Management at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University in the U.S. state of Kans ...

Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid ( ur, محسن حامد; born 23 July 1971) is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are ''Moth Smoke'' (2000), ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' (2007), ''How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' (201 ...

Jenny Han Jenny Han is an American author of young adult fiction and children's fiction. She is best known for writing the '' To All the Boys'' series and ''The Summer I Turned Pretty'' trilogy, which were adapted into a film series and TV series, respec ...

Asma Gull Hasan Asma Gull Hasan ( ur, ; born 1974) is an American writer. Her work includes the book ''Red, White, and Muslim'', a biographical view of growing up as an American Muslim. She is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, born in Chicago, United Stat ...

Alamgir Hashmi Alamgir Hashmi (Urdu: عالمگیر ہاشمی), also known as Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi (born 15 November 1951), is an English poet of Pakistani origin. Considered avant-garde, his early and later works were published to considerable critical ...

* S. I. Hayakawa *

Le Ly Hayslip Le Ly Hayslip (; born Phùng Thị Lệ Lý; December 19, 1949) is a Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese-American writer, memoirist and humanitarian. Through her foundations, she has worked to rebuild cultural bridges between Vietnam and America fol ...

* Joseph Heco *

Tess Uriza Holthe Tess Uriza Holthe is a Filipino-American writer, who was born and raised in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco and is best known for her nationally bestselling novel ''When the Elephants Dance''. Biography Holthe graduated from Gold ...

* Cathy Park Hong *

Euny Hong Euny Hong is a Korean-American journalist and author, based in France. Biography Hong is the author of three books. The novel ''Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners'' was published by Simon and Schuster in 2006. ''The Birth of Korean Cool: How One N ...

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Garrett Hongo Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born May 30, 1951) is a Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic and poet. His work draws on Japanese American history and his own experiences.Arakawa, Suzanne K. (2005). "Hongo, Garrett (Kaoru)", in He was a ...

Bill Hosokawa William Kunpei Hosokawa (January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was an American writer and journalist. Of Japanese descent, while internment of Japanese Americans, interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, he was the editor of the i ...

Khaled Hosseini Khaled Hosseini (;Pashto/Dari ; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan Americans, Afghan-American novelist, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel ''The Kite Runner'' (2003) wa ...

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (born September 26, 1934) is an American writer. Her writings primarily focus on ethnic identity formation in the United States of America. She is best known for her autobiographical novel ''Farewell to Manzanar'' that n ...

TC Huo TC Huo is a Laotian American author, of Chinese descent, who emigrated from Laos to the United States in 1980 and now lives in Oakland, California. He has written the novels '' A Thousand Wings'' and ''Land of Smiles ''The Land of Smiles'' (Ger ...

Eddie Huang Edwyn Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982) is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously h ...

David Henry Hwang David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays '' FOB'', '' Golden Child'', and '' Yellow ...

(黃哲倫), playwright *

Lawson Fusao Inada Lawson Fusao Inada (born May 26, 1938) is a Japanese American poet. He was the fifth poet laureate of the state of Oregon. Early life Born May 26, 1938, Inada is a third-generation Japanese American (''Sansei''). His father, Fusaji, worked as a d ...

Daniel K. Inouye Daniel Ken Inouye ( ; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S. representative f ...

* Pico Iyer * Tania James * Gish Jen *

Ha Jin Jin Xuefei (; born February 21, 1956) is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (). ''Ha'' comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Early life Ha Jin was born in L ...

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Cynthia Kadohata Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel ''Kira-Kira'' which won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for ''The ...

* Michiko Kakutani *

Mindy Kaling Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979),Additional archive on June 25, 2015. known professionally as Mindy Kaling (), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer. She first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the N ...

Jay Caspian Kang Jay Caspian Kang is an American writer, editor, television journalist and podcast host. He is a staff writer at the ''New York Times Magazine'' and the opinion section of ''The New York Times''. Previously he was an editor of ''Grantland'', then ...

, journalist, novelist * Michael Kang *

Minsoo Kang Minsoo Kang (born 1967) is a historian and writer. Currently, he is an associate professor of European intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Kang is also an expert on the history of automata ...

, historian and writer * Younghill Kang, novelist *

Bhanu Kapil Bhanu Kapil is a poet, and author of books, including ''The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers'' (2001), ''Incubation: A Space for Monsters'' (2006), and ''Ban en Banlieue'' (2015). Career Kapil's first book, ''The Vertical Interrogation of ...

* Sheba Karim *

Hiroshi Kashiwagi Hiroshi Kashiwagi (November 8, 1922 – October 29, 2019) was a ''Nisei'' (second-generation Japanese American) poet, playwright and actor. For his writing and performance work on stage he is considered an early pioneer of Asian American theatr ...

, poet, playwright, novelist *

Soji Kashiwagi Soji Kashiwagi (born 1962 in Oakland, California) is a ''Sansei'' (third-generation Japanese American) journalist, playwright and producer. He is the Executive Producer for the Grateful Crane Ensemble theatre company in Los Angeles. He has co ...

, playwright *

Siddharth Katragadda Siddharth (Sid) Katragadda is an Indian American artist, writer, filmmaker, poet and engineer. Early life He was born in Bangalore, India in 1972 and moved to the United States for his Master's degree in computer sciences from the University o ...

Nora Okja Keller Nora Okja Keller (born 22 December 1966, in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean American author. Her 1997 breakthrough work of fiction, ''Comfort Woman'', and her second book (2002), ''Fox Girl'', focus on multigenerational trauma resulting from Korea ...

, author of ''Comfort Woman'' (1997) and ''Fox Girl'' (2002) *

Porochista Khakpour Porochista Khakpour (Farsi: پوروچیستا خاکپور, born January 17, 1978) is an Iranian American novelist, essayist, and journalist. A refugee from Iran whose family fled the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution, Khakpour grew up ...

Uzma Aslam Khan Uzma Aslam Khan is a Pakistani American writer. Her five novels include ''Trespassing'' (2003), ''The Geometry of God'' (2008), ''Thinner Than Skin'' (2012) and ''The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali'' (2019). Personal life Khan was born in ...

* Parag Khanna *

Crystal Hana Kim Crystal Hana Kim is an American author. Her first novel, '' If You Leave Me'', was named a best book of 2018 by ''The Washington Post, ALA Booklist'', ''Literary Hub, Cosmopolitan,'' and others. Kim was named a National Book Foundation's 5 Under ...

Elaine H. Kim Elaine H. Kim is an American writer, editor and professor emerita in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Kim retired from teaching in 2015. Her academic interests and research areas included Asia ...

, author of ''Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context'' * Jaegwon Kim, philosopher * Myung Mi Kim * Patti Kim *

Richard E. Kim Richard Eun Kook Kim (1932–2009) was a Korean–American writer and professor of literature. He was the author of ''The Martyred'' (1964), ''The Innocent'' (1968), and ''Lost Names'' (1970), and many other works. He was a Guggenheim Fellow ( ...

, novelist *

Suki Kim Suki Kim is a Korean American journalist and writer. She is the author of two books: the award-winning novel ''The Interpreter'' and a book of investigative journalism, ''Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's E ...

, novelist *

Ronyoung Kim Ronyoung Kim (March 28, 1926 – February 1987), aka Kim Ronyoung, was the pen name of Gloria Hahn, a Korean American writer. She was born and raised to Korean immigrants in Los Angeles's Koreatown"Ronyoung Kim", ''Encyclopedia of Asian-America ...

Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston (; born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;Huntley, E. D. (2001). ''Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion'', p. 1. October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, wher ...

, novelist *

Katie Kitamura Katie Kitamura is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Consortium. Early life and education Katie Kitamura was born in Sacramento, California in 1979 to a family of Japanese ...

Bharti Kirchner Bharti Kirchner is an American author. She is the author of thirteen books—nine novels and four cookbooks—and has been publishing since 1992. She has written numerous articles and essays on food, travel, fitness, and lifestyle. She has won two ...

* Alexandra Kleeman * Lisa Ko *

Dorinne K. Kondo Dorinne K. Kondo is a professor of American studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is a scholar, playwright, and has over 20 years of work experience in dramaturge; her work shows the structural inequal ...

Gowri Koneswaran Gowri Koneswaran is a queer Tamil-American poet, performing artist, teacher, and lawyer whose family immigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka. She is a Kundiman fellow. Performances & Publications Her poems are available in Split This Rock {{Sho ...

R.F. Kuang Rebecca F. Kuang is a Chinese-American fantasy writer. Her first novel, '' The Poppy War'', was released in 2018, followed by the sequels ''The Dragon Republic'' in 2019 and ''The Burning God'' in 2020. Kuang released a stand-alone novel, ''Bab ...

* Helena Kuo *

Kevin Kwan Kevin Kwan (born ) is a Singapore-born American novelist and writer of satirical novels ''Crazy Rich Asians'', ''China Rich Girlfriend'', and '' Rich People Problems''. His latest book, '' Sex and Vanity'', was released in June 2020. In 2014, ...

, author *

Jean Kwok Jean Kwok is the award-winning, ''New York Times'' and international bestselling Chinese American author of the novels ''Girl in Translation'', ''Mambo in Chinatown,'' and ''Searching for Sylvie Lee'', which was chosen as ''The Today Show'' Read ...

, author of ''Girl in Translation'' (2010) *

Dan Kwong Dan Kwong is an American performance artist, writer, teacher and visual artist. He has been presenting his solo performances since 1989, often drawing upon his own life experiences to explore personal, historical, and social issues. His works ...

* Jhumpa Lahiri *

Him Mark Lai Him Mark Lai (; November 1, 1925 – May 21, 2009) was a historian of Chinese American, a leader of the Chinese-American community, and writer. He helped restore the state of Chinese American historiography. Lai "rescued, collected, catalogued, p ...

Andrew Lam Andrew Lam (born 1964) is a Vietnamese American author and journalist who has written about the Overseas Vietnamese experience. Biography Andrew Lam was born Lâm Quang Dũng in 1964 in South Vietnam. He led a privileged life as the son of Gen ...

* Le Thi Diem Thuy * Ang Lee * Chang-Rae Lee *

Chin Yang Lee Chin Yang Lee (; December 23, 1915 – November 8, 2018) was a Chinese American author best known for his 1957 novel ''The Flower Drum Song'', which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''Flower Drum Song'' and the eponymous 1961 film w ...

(黎錦揚) * Don Lee *

Ed Bok Lee Ed Bok Lee is an American poet and writer. He is the author of three books of poetry, including ''Mitochondrial Night'' (2019), ''Whorled'', the recipient of a 2012 American Book Award and a 2012 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and ''Real Karaoke P ...

Gus Lee Augustus Samuel Mein-Sun "Gus" Lee (born August 8, 1946) is an American author and ethicist. He was born in San Francisco, a place he recounts in his childhood memoir/novel ''China Boy'' (1991) about growing up in a broken, poverty-stricken immigr ...

(李健孫) *

Helie Lee Helie Lee (born August 29, 1964) is a Korean American writer and university lecturer who has also made a documentary film. Early life Lee was born on August 29, 1964 in Seoul, South Korea. Her family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada when she wa ...

Karen An-hwei Lee Karen An-hwei Lee (born 1973) is an American poet. Life Born in 1973, and raised in Massachusetts, Lee is a Chinese American poet, translator, and critic. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University and a Ph.D. in literature ...

Krys Lee Krys Lee is a Korean-American author based in South Korea, a journalist, and translator. She wrote the short story collection ''Drifting House'' (2012) and the novel ''How I Became a North Korean'' (2016). She is an associate professor of creati ...

Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted ...

* Stacey Lee * Joseph O. Legaspi * Russell Leong * Yiyun Li *

Sandra Lim Sandra Lim is a Korean American poet and professor. Career She is the author of three poetry collections -- ''The Curious Thing'' (W.W. Norton, 2021), ''The Wilderness'' (W.W. Norton, 2014), and ''Loveliest Grotesque'' (Kore Press, 2006). ''The ...

Shirley Geok-lin Lim Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, ''Crossing The Peninsula'', published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a w ...

* Adet and

Anor Lin Lin Tai-yi (; April 1, 1926 – July 2003) was a Chinese-American writer and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing and came to the United States with her family when ...

Ed Lin Ed Lin is a Taiwanese-American writer, actor and novelist. He is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His first novel, ''Waylaid'' (2002) won a Members' Choice Award at the Asian American Literary Awards and also a Boo ...

* Grace Lin *

Tan Lin Tan Anthony Lin is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor. He defines his work as “ambient" literature, which draws on and samples source material from the Internet and popular culture to address issues involving plagiarism, copyrig ...

* Tao Lin *

Lin Tai-yi Lin Tai-yi (; April 1, 1926 – July 2003) was a China, Chinese-American writer and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing and came to the United States with her family ...

R. Zamora Linmark R. Zamora Linmark, born in Manila, is a Filipino American poet, novelist, and playwright. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. He is the recipient of a Japan-United States Friendship Commission, a winner of a ...

* Linh Dinh *

Eric Liu Eric P. Liu (born 1968) is an American writer, former civil servant, and founder of Citizen University, a non-profit organization promoting civics education and awareness. Liu served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Polic ...

Ken Liu Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. His epic fantasy series ''The Dandelion Dynasty'', which he describes as silkpunk, is published by Simon & Schuster. Liu has won Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fic ...

(刘宇昆), Hugo and Nebula Award winner *

Marjorie Liu Marjorie M. Liu is an American ''New York Times'' best-selling author and comic book writer. She is acclaimed for her horror fantasy comic '' Monstress'', and her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels including ''The Hunter Kiss'' and ''Tig ...

* Timothy Liu *

Malinda Lo Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including ''Ash'', ''Huntress'', ''Adaptation'', ''Inheritance,'' ''A Line in the Dark'', and '' Last Night at the Telegraph Club''. She also does research on diversity in young adult literat ...

Teresa Lo Teresa Lo is an American writer and standup comedian. Lo has a Masters in Fine Arts in Writing for Screen and Television from the University of Southern California. She has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Kansas The Univ ...

, novelist and screenwriter *

Vyvyane Loh Vyvyane Loh (Chinese: ''Loh Hui-Shien'') is a Malaysian-United States, American novelist, choreographer, and physician. Biography Loh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia of an ethnic Chinese family. She grew up in Singapore and completed a degree in Bio ...

* Mimi Lok * Bette Bao Lord *

Marie Lu Marie Lu (born 陸希未) is a Chinese-American young adult author. She is best known for the ''Legend'' series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future, as well as the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and ''Batman: Nightwalker' ...

David Wong Louie David Wong Louie (; December 20, 1954 – September 19, 2018) was a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer. Life and career Born in Rockville Centre, New York, Louie graduated from East Meadow High School in 1973, as "one of the fe ...

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* Ling Ma * Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) *

Sezan Mahmud Saleh M. M. Rahman, better known by his pen name Sezan Mahmud, ( bn, সেজান মাহমুদ) is a Bangladeshi-born Americans, American writer, lyricist, columnist and physician-scientist. He was awarded the Shishu Academy Award in 1395 ...

* Michelle Malkin, conservative newspaper columnist *

Sally Wen Mao Sally Wen Mao (born in Wuhan, China) is an American poet. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Life She grew up in Boston and the Bay Area. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and Cornell University, with an MFA. Her work has a ...

Maliha Masood Maliha Masood is a Pakistani-American writer. She was born 1971 in Karachi, Pakistan. She moved to the United States in 1982 and grew up in Bellevue, Washington. Masood is a writer in creative nonfiction and the author of two travel memoirs, ''Zaa ...

* Sujata Massey *

Kristina McMorris Kristina McMorris is an American author of five novels and two novellas. McMorris's debut novel, ''Letters from Home,'' was originally inspired by her grandparents' WWII courtship letters. The book was a 2013 nominee for the RITA Award. Kristi ...

Mong-Lan Mộng-Lan is a Vietnamese people, Vietnamese-born United States, American writer, visual artist, musician, dancer, and educator. Former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Fulbright Scholar, she has published seven books of poetry & artwork, ...

Tulika Mehrotra Tulika Mehrotra is a technology executive and author. Biography Tulika Mehrotra is based in Chicago. She was born in Lucknow and is fluent in Hindi.

* Hasan Minhaj *

Mary Anne Mohanraj Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (born July 26, 1971) is an American writer, editor, and academic of Sri Lankan birth. Background Mohanraj was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka but moved to the United States at the age of two and grew up in New Britain, ...

Toshio Mori Toshio Mori (March 3, 1910 – 1980) was an American author, best known for being one of the earliest (and perhaps the first) Japanese–American writers to publish a book of fiction. He participated in drawing the UFO Robo Grendizer, the J ...

Mai Neng Moua Mai Neng Moua (born May 5, 1974) is a Hmong-American writer and a founder of the '' Paj Ntaub Voice'', a Hmong literary magazine. She is also the editor of the first anthology of Hmong American writers, '' Bamboo Among the Oaks''. Early life M ...

Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of a number of novels and short story ...

* David Mura *

Milton Murayama Milton Atsushi Murayama (April 10, 1923 – July 27, 2016) was an American novelist and playwright. A Nisei, he wrote the 1975 novel ''All I Asking for Is My Body'', which is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans ...

Sabina Murray Sabina Murray (born 1968) is Filipina-American screenwriter and a novelist. She currently is a professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Background and career The daughter of an American father ...

* An Na, novelist *

Ken Narasaki Ken Narasaki (born April 4, 1958) is an American playwright and actor. He is the former Literary Manager at East West Players theatre company in Los Angeles. He is the twin brother of civil rights leader Karen Narasaki. Actor Narasaki has appear ...

, playwright *

Sunil Nayar Sunil Nayar is an Indian American television writer and producer, most notable for his work on ''CSI: Miami''. For its third season onward, Nayar has been appointed main-showrunner and executive producer of the ABC television series ''Revenge''. H ...

, television writer *

Aimee Nezhukumatathil Aimee Nezhukumatathil (; Malayalam Abugida: നേഴുകുമറ്റത്തിൽ; ; born in 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet and essayist. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her ...

Celeste Ng Celeste Ng ( ) (born July 30, 1980) is an American writer and novelist. She has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ng's first novel, '' Everything I Never Told You'', released on June 26, 20 ...

Fae Myenne Ng Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2, 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist, and short story writer. She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel ''Bone'' told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in ...

* Bich Minh Nguyen, novelist * Kien Nguyen * Qui Nguyen * Nguyen Qui Duc *

Viet Thanh Nguyen The Vietnamese people ( vi, người Việt, lit=Viet people) or Kinh people ( vi, người Kinh) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China (Jing Islands, Dongxing, Guangxi). The native lang ...

Thuc Doan Nguyen Thuc Doan Nguyen (Thục Đoan Nguyễn) is a New Orleans-based writer and producer. She founded "The Bitch Pack", a group dedicated to promoting female-driven screenplays through Twitter and other social media sites. Nguyen is the winner of a 2 ...

* Yone Noguchi *

Sigrid Nunez Sigrid Nunez is an American writer, best known for her novels. Her seventh novel, '' The Friend'', won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. She is on the faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Hunter College (CUNY). Biography Sigri ...

John Okada John Okada (September 23, 1923 – February 20, 1971) was a Japanese American novelist known for his critically acclaimed novel ''No-No Boy''. Biography Born in Seattle, Okada was a student at the University of Washington during the attack o ...

Gary Okihiro Gary Y. Okihiro is an American author and scholar. Currently at Yale, he was a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York City and the founding director of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race ...

Daniel Okimoto Daniel I. Okimoto (born 1942) is a Japanese-American academic and political scientist.

Miné Okubo Miné Okubo (; June 27, 1912 – February 10, 2001) was an American artist and writer. She is best known for her book ''Citizen 13660'', a collection of 198 drawings and accompanying text chronicling her experiences in Japanese American internmen ...

Matthew Olzmann Matthew Olzmann is a poet, author, and essayist. Personal life Matthew Olzmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College, and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Olzmann is married to poet Vievee Francis. ...

Ruth Ozeki Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her books and films, including the novels '' My Year of Meats'' (1998), '' All Over Creation'' (2003), '' A Tale for the Time Being'' (2013), and '' The Book of Form ...

* Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese Muslim writer *

Gary Pak Gary Pak (born 1952) is a writer, editor and professor of English at University of Hawaii. Pak has been noted as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers. Biography Gary Pak was born and raised in Hawaii. Pak graduated from Boston Univers ...

, author of ''Children of a Fireland: A Novel'' (2004) and ''Language of the Geckos and Other Stories'' (2005) *

Greg Pak Greg Pak is an American comic book writer and film director. Pak is best known for his work on books published by Marvel Comics, including ''X-Men'' (most notably '' X-Treme X-Men''), several titles featuring the Hulk (including ''Planet Hulk'', w ...

* Ty Pak, author of ''Guilt Payment'' (1983) and ''Moonbay: Short Stories'' (1999) *

Linda Sue Park Linda Sue Park (born March 25, 1960) is a Korean-American author who published her first novel, ''Seesaw Girl'', in 1999. She has written six children's novels and five picture books. Park's work achieved prominence when she received the prestigi ...

, novelist *

Therese Park Therese Park is a South Korean author, now living in the US. An accomplished cellist, she moved to the US to perform with the Kansas City Philharmonic (now the Kansas City Symphony) in 1966. After 30 years, she retired and began writing full-time ...

Yongsoo Park Yongsoo Park is a Korean American writer who has authored the novels ''Boy Genius'' ()and ''Las Cucarachas'' (), the essay collection ''The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey with Kids'' (), and the memoir ''Rated R Boy: Growing Up K ...

, author of ''Boy Genius'' (2002), ''Las Cucarachas'' (2004), ''The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey With Kids'' (2018), and ''Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens'' (2020) *

Kamran Pasha Kamran Pasha ( ur, ; born on 3 April 1972) is an American Hollywood screenwriter, director and novelist of Pakistani origin. He was a writer and producer on the NBC series '' Kings'', after working as a producer on NBC's '' Bionic Woman''.. Previ ...

Craig Santos Perez Craig Santos Perez (born February 6, 1980) is a poet, essayist, university professor, American publisher (USA) from the Chamorro people, born in Mongmong-Toto-Maite, Guam Island. His poetry has received multiple awards, including a 2015 America ...

* Andrew X. Pham *

Aimee Phan Aimee Phan is a Vietnamese-American author. She was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her BA in English from UCLA and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won a Maytag Fellowship. Her first novel, ''We Should ...

* Bao Phi *

Michelle Naka Pierce Michelle Naka Pierce (born 1968 in Tokyo, Japan, and raised in Albuquerque, NM) is a half Japanese/half American poet. She teaches experimental poetry and writing pedagogy at Naropa University and is the director of the Jack Kerouac School of Di ...

Jon Pineda Jon Pineda (born Charleston, South Carolina) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. Life Jon Pineda was raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. He graduated from James Madison University and Virginia Commonwealth University. His work has appeared ...

Ramesh Ponnuru Ramesh Ponnuru (; born August 16, 1974) is an American conservative thinker, political pundit, and journalist. He has been a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2012. He is the editor of ''National Review'' magazine, a colu ...

Imad Rahman Imad Rahman is a Pakistani American fiction writer whose first short story collection was published in 2004. Biography A native of Karachi, Pakistan who immigrated to the United States at age 18 to attend college, Rahman was an assistant profess ...

Janaki Ram Janaki Ram is an Indian-American author who has written biographies and collections of short stories, as well as a prominent figure in Asian art auctions. She is a relative of V. K. Krishna Menon and Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer and a member of the pow ...

Aneesh Raman Aneesh Raman is Vice President and Head of The Opportunity Project at LinkedIn. A former CNN war correspondent and speechwriter to President Barack Obama, Raman is an experienced communicator, focusing his career in recent years on the expansion ...

A.K. Ramanujan Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, Linguis ...

Anantanand Rambachan Anantanand Rambachan is a professor of religion at St. Olaf College. Education Rambachan completed his undergraduate studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. He received his M.A. (Distinction) and Ph.D. degrees fr ...

, religious writer *

Bino Realuyo Bino A. Realuyo is a Filipino-American novelist, poet, community organizer and adult educator. He was born and raised in Manila, Philippines but spent most of his adult life in New York City. He is the author of a novel, ''The Umbrella Country'', a ...

* Rishi Reddi * Srikanth Reddy *

Paisley Rekdal Paisley Rekdal is an American poet who is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Utah. She is the author of a book of essays entitled ''The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In,'' the memoir ''Intimate,'' as well as five bo ...

Nina Revoyr Nina Revoyr (born June 12, 1969) is an American novelist and children's advocate, best known for her award-winning 2003 novel ''Southland''.

Barbara Jane Reyes Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing, self and culture." Early life Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her ...

Bruce Reyes-Chow Bruce Reyes-Chow is an American Teaching Elder (minister) of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Reyes-Chow received his BA in Asian American Studies, Sociology and Religion from San Francisco State University in 1990 and received his Masters of Divin ...

Margaret Rhee Margaret Rhee is a feminist experimental poet, new media artist, and scholar. Her research focuses on technology, and intersections with feminist, queer, and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and ...

Lee Ann Roripaugh Lee Ann Roripaugh (born 1965) is an American poet and was the South Dakota poet laureate from 2015 to 2019. Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of five volumes of poetry: tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), Dandarians (Milkweed, Ed ...

Patrick Rosal Patrick Rosal is a Filipino American poet and essayist. Writing Rosal is the author of four books of poetry: ''Brooklyn Antediluvian'', ''Boneshepherds'', ''My American Kundiman'', and ''Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive'', all from Persea Book ...

Shawna Yang Ryan Shawna Yang Ryan is a Taiwanese-American novelist, short story writer and creative writing professor, who has published the novels ''Water Ghosts'' (2009) (Penguin Press) and ''Green Island'' (2016) (Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf). She currently teache ...

* Edward Said *

Albert Saijo Albert Fairchild Saijo (February 4, 1926 – June 2, 2011) was a Japanese-American poet associated with the Beat Generation. He and his family were imprisoned as part of the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World ...

Yumi Sakugawa Yumi Sakugawa is a comic artist based in California. Her work has been published online, in feminist magazines and in book form. Sakugawa also edits a blog about wellness. She was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2014 for her mini comic, ''Never F ...

* Bienvenido Santos *

Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo Rahadyan Timoteo Sastrowardoyo (born March 31, 1963, in New York City) is a writer, editor and photographer. He is an American of Indonesian and Filipino ancestry. Sastrowardoyo was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and attended P.S. ...

Allen Say Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937; surname written in Japanese) is a Japanese-American writer and illustrator. He is best known for ''Grandfather's Journey'', a children's picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage fr ...

Lisa See Lisa See (born 18th February 1955) is an American writer and novelist. Her books include ''On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family'' (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels '' Flower N ...

, novelist * Vijay Seshadri *

Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crosswor ...

* Simran Sethi, journalist and author of ''Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love'' (2015) *

T. K. Seung T. K. Seung was a Korean American philosopher and literary critic. His academic interests cut across diverse philosophical and literary subjects, including ethics, political philosophy, Continental philosophy, cultural hermeneutics, and liter ...

, philosopher *

Purvi Shah Purvi Shah is a writer and social justice activist, known for her work to enable language access and advocacy for immigrant survivors of violence. Career Shah is the author of three collections of poetry, ''Terrain Tracks'' (New Rivers Press, ...

, poet * Naren Shankar, screenwriter * Prageeta Sharma *

Brenda Shaughnessy Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an American poet. Life Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and MFA at Columbia Uni ...

Sun Yung Shin Sun Yung Shin (born 1974) is a Korean American poet, writer, consultant, and educator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the editor of "A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota" ( Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016), author of ...

, poet *

Bapsi Sidhwa Bapsi Sidhwa ( ur, بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is a resident in the United States. She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo- ...

SJ Sindu SJ Sindu (born November 27, 1987) is a genderqueer Sri Lankan Americans, Sri Lankan American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, ''Marriage of a Thousand Lies'', was released by Soho Press in June 2017, won the Edmund White Award, P ...

, novelist *

Monica Sone Monica Sone (September 1, 1919 – September 5, 2011), born Kazuko Itoi, was a Japanese American writer, best known for her 1953 autobiographical memoir ''Nisei Daughter'', which tells of the Japanese American experience in Seattle during the 1920 ...

, autobiographer * Cathy Song *

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto , also known as Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, was a Japanese American autobiographer and novelist. Biography She was born in Nagaoka in Echigo Province (which means "Behind the Mountains") in Japan, now part of Niigata Prefecture. Her father had ...

Indu Sundaresan Indu Sundaresan is an Indian-American author of historical fiction. Personal life She was born and raised in India as the daughter of an Indian Air Force pilot, Group Captain R. Sundaresan, who died in a crash while on duty. Her mother's name is ...

, historical fiction author *

* Sokunthary Svay *

Arthur Sze Arthur Sze (; ; born December 1, 1950) is an American poet, translator, and professor. Since 1972, he has published ten collections of poetry. Sze's ninth collection ''Compass Rose'' (2014) was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Sz ...

* Mai-Mai Sze

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Eileen Tabios Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is a Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic, and publisher. Early life Born in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, Tabios moved to the United States at the age of ten. ...

Ronald Takaki Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki (April 12, 1939 – May 26, 2009) was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in pre-statehood Hawaii, Takaki studied at the College of Wooster and completed his doctorate in American history at t ...

, UC Berkeley history professor *

Grace Talusan Grace Talusan is a Filipino American writer. Her 2019 memoir, ''The Body Papers'', won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was a ''New York Times'' Editors' Choice selection. Her s ...

* Amy Tan, novelist * Lucy Tan, novelist * Ronald Tanaka *

Lysley Tenorio Lysley A. Tenorio (born Olongapo City, Philippines) is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize ...

Timothy Tau Timothy Tau (born Timothy Tau Hsieh ( ); Chinese: 謝韜; pinyin: Xiè Tāo) is a Taiwanese-American writer, engineer, attorney, law professor and filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 ''Hyphen magazine, Hyphen'' Asian American Writers' Workshop Short St ...

* Madeleine Thien *

Bhagat Singh Thind Bhagat Singh Thind (October 3, 1892 – September 15, 1967) was an Indian American writer and lecturer on spirituality who served in the United States Army during World War I and was involved in a Supreme Court case over the right of India ...

, author *

Sherry Thomas Sherry M. Thomas (born 1975) is an American novelist of young adult fantasy, historical romance, and contemporary romance. She has won multiple awards including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for '' Not Qui ...

, novelist *

Tim Toyama Tim Toyama (born April 28, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is a playwright and producer. He is ''Sansei'' (third-generation Japanese American) living in Los Angeles, California. He is co-founder of the Asian American media company Cedar Grove Productio ...

, playwright *

Barbara Tran Barbara Tran (born 1968) is an American-born poet living in Canada. She received a Pushcart Prize in 1997. Career Born in New York City, Tran received her BA from New York University and her MFA from Columbia University. She coedited the antholog ...

Truong Tran Truong Tran (born 1969 in Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher. He is an author of five collections of poetry and a children's book. As a visual artist Tran is best known for mixed media pieces though he h ...

Vu Tran Vu Hoang Tran (born 1975; Vietnamese name: Trần Hoàng Vũ) is a Vietnamese American writer. His debut novel, '' Dragonfish'', was released in 2015. Life Vu Tran was born in Saigon in 1975, and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He graduated fr ...

Monique Truong Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968, in Saigon in South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her ...

Hsi Tseng Tsiang Hsi Tseng Tsiang (; 1899–1971) was a Chinese-American left-wing writer of novels, poetry, and plays. In his later years, he trained himself to be an actor in Hollywood. He was captivated with the proletarian movements and created literature work ...

(a.k.a. H.T. Tsiang) * Gail Tsukiyama * Yoshiko Uchida *

Thrity Umrigar Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American journalist, critic, and novelist. Early life Umrigar was born in Mumbai, India to a Parsi family, and relocated to the United States at the age of 21. Career Umrigar received a Bachelor of Science from Bo ...

* Loung Ung * Abraham Verghese *

Jose Garcia Villa Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. * Jose ben Abin * Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galile ...

* Padma Viswanathan * Saymoukda Vongsay * Ocean Vuong * Gemini Wahhaj *

Raees Warsi Raees may refer to: * Raees (1976 film), an Indian Hindi-language drama film * ''Raees'' (2017 film), an Indian Hindi-language action film * ''Raees'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the film * Rais, a title used by the rulers of Arab stat ...

* Onoto Watanna, a.k.a. Winnifred Eaton *

Qian Julie Wang Qian Julie Wang (Chinese: 王乾) is a Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer. Early life Qian Wang was born in Shijiazhuang, China to academic parents. Wang's mother was a professor of mathematics, while Wang's father was a profe ...

Weike Wang Weike Wang is a Chinese-American author of the novel ''Chemistry'', which won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. Her fiction has been published in ''Glimmer Train'', the '' Alaska Quarterly Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Kenyon Review'', ''The New Y ...

Yun Wang Yun Wang (born 1964) is a poet and cosmologist. She is originally from Gaoping, Guizhou, Gaoping, a small town near Zunyi, in Guizhou Province, China. Professional work in astrophysics Yun Wang received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tsing ...

Michi Weglyn Michi Nishiura Weglyn (November 29, 1926 – April 25, 1999) was an American author. Her book ''Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps'', which was published in 1976, helped fuel a movement leading to reparations ...

Jade Snow Wong Jade Snow Wong () (January 21, 1922 – March 16, 2006) was a Chinese American ceramic artist and author of two memoirs. She was given the English name of Constance, also being known as Connie Wong Ong. Early life Wong was born on January 2 ...

Jane Wong Jane Wong is an American poet and professor at Western Washington University. She is the author of ''Overpour'' and has been published in Best American Poetry 2015 and Best New Poets 2012. Wong grew up in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, where her paren ...

Nellie Wong Nellie Wong (born 12 September 1934) is an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong is also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women. Biography Wong was born in Oakland, California to Chinese ...

* Raymond K. Wong * Shawn Wong *

Merle Woo Merle Woo is an American academic, poet and activist who has been described as "a leading member of the Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party". Her essay "Letter to Ma" was selected for inclusion in the 1981 feminist anthology ''This Br ...

Sung J. Woo Sung J. Woo (born June 8, 1971) is a Korean-American writer of three works of fiction. He was born in Seoul, South Korea. Personal Woo came to the United States in 1981, when he was ten years old. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey. H ...

Bryan Thao Worra Bryan Thao Worra (born January 1, 1973) is a Laotian American writer. His books include ''On The Other Side Of The Eye'', ''Touching Detonations'', ''Winter Ink'', ''Barrow'' and ''The Tuk Tuk Diaries: My Dinner With Cluster Bombs''. He is the fir ...

* Fan Wu (吴帆) * William F. Wu *

Mitsuye Yamada Mitsuye Yamada (born July 5, 1923) is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She was one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. ...

Hisaye Yamamoto Hisaye Yamamoto (August 23, 1921 – January 30, 2011) was an American author known for the short story collection ''Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories,'' first published in 1988. Her work confronts issues of the Japanese immigrant experience ...

Lois-Ann Yamanaka Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born September 7, 1961) is an American poet and novelist from Hawaii. Many of her literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues. In particular, her works confro ...

Karen Tei Yamashita Karen Tei Yamashita ( ja, 山下てい ; born January 8, 1951) is a Japanese-American writer. Early life Yamashita was born on January 8, 1951, in Oakland, California. Career Yamashita is Professor of Literature at the University of Calif ...

Wakako Yamauchi Wakako Yamauchi (October 23, 1924 – August 16, 2018) was a Japanese American writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian-American theater. Biography Yamauchi (née Nakamura) was born in Westmorland, California. Her mother and f ...

Gene Luen Yang Gene Luen Yang (Chinese Traditional: 楊謹倫, Simplified: 杨谨伦, Pinyin: ''Yáng Jǐnlún''; born August 9, 1973) is an American cartoonist. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics, at comic book conventions a ...

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Jeff Yang Jeff Yang () (born ) is an American writer, journalist, businessman, and business/media consultant who writes the ''Tao Jones'' column for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Previously, he was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the ''San Francisco Chronicle' ...

* Kao Kalia Yang * Yanyi *

John Yau John Yau (born June 5, 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction ...

Lisa Yee Lisa Yee (born August 27, 1959) is a Chinese American writer and the author of ''Millicent Min, Girl Genius'' (2003), '' Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time'' (2005) and '' So Totally Emily Ebers'' (2007). The three books are a part of a trilogy, summ ...

Paul Yoon Paul Yoon (born 1980) is an American fiction writer. In 2010 The National Book Foundation named him a 5 Under 35 honoree. Early life and education Yoon's grandfather was a North Korean refugee who resettled in South Korea, where he later founded ...

* Monica Youn *

C. Dale Young C. Dale Young (born April 18, 1969) is an American poet and writer, physician, editor and educator of Asian and Latino descent. Life Young writes and publishes poetry and short stories, practices medicine full-time, and teaches in the Warren Wil ...

Charles Yu Charles Chowkai Yu (born January 3, 1976) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels ''How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe'' and '' Interior Chinatown'', as well as the short-story collections ''Third Class Superhero'' ...

, novelist * Lizzie Yu Der Ling * Laurence Yep * Connie Young Yu, writer and historian * Judy Yung *

Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's ''Fareed Zakaria GPS'' and writes a weekly paid column for ''The Washington Post.'' He has been a columnist ...

, political analyst author * C. Pam Zhang * Jenny Zhang * Jenny Tinghui Zhang *

Kat Zhang Kat Zhang (born 1 April 1991) is an American award-winning author of young adult and middle grade literature. She has also written two picture books, ''Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao'' and ''Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon''. Her first trilogy, '' ...

Helen Zia Helen Zia is a Chinese-American journalist and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights. She is considered a key figure in the Asian American movement. Life and career Early childhood and education Zia was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1952 ...

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