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 ...
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 orga ...
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. Afte ...
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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, particula ...
Aziz Ansari
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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, Guyana, New Amsterdam, East Berbic ...
Peter Bacho
Peter Bacho is a writer and teacher best known for his book ''Cebu (novel), Cebu'' which won the American Book Award. His book is defined as Filipino American literature because of its explorations in themes such as neocolonialism and Filipino-Ame ...
Cebu
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Susham Bedi
Susham Bedi (1 July 1945 – 20 March 2020) was an Indian author of novels, short stories and poetry. She was a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Colum ...
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Bette Bao Lord
Bette Bao Lord ( Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy.
Early life
Lord was born as Bette Bao in Shanghai, China. With her mother and fa ...
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 School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art ...
(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
* Sujata Bhatt
* Jaswinder Bolina
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Jenny Boully
Jenny Boully (born 1976) is an author and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowships award in 2020 for general nonfiction. She is the author of ''The Book of Beginnings and Endings'' (Sarabande Books, 2007), ''The Body: An Essay'' ( Slope Editions, 200 ...
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Carlos Bulosan
Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 24, 1913 – September 11, 1956) was an English-language Filipino novelist and poet who immigrated to America on July 1, 1930. He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the United S ...
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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.
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Lan Cao
Lan Cao (born 1961) is the author of the novels '' Monkey Bridge'' (1997) and '' The Lotus and the Storm'' (2014). She is also a professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law, specializing in international business and trade, internat ...
Steph Cha
Steph Cha is a Korean American novelist and fiction writer, who has released three novels in the crime fiction genre about her detective protagonist Juniper Song, ''Follow Her Home'' (2013), ''Beware Beware'' (2014) and ''Dead Soon Enough'' (2015) ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Eileen Chang
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K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang (born 1998) is a novelist and poet. She is the author of the novel ''Bestiary'' (2020). ''Bestiary'' was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2021. In 2018 she published a ...
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Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán) is an American writer of novels and short stories.
Life
Lan Samantha Chang was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and attended Yale University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in East Asian S ...
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Leonard Chang Leonard Chang is a Korean American writer of short stories and novels, as well as a screenwriter and television writer/executive producer who is known for FX's Snowfall.
Biography
Born in Spanish Harlem, New York, Chang grew up on Long Island and ...
Bonnie Chau
Bonnie Chau is an American author of short stories. Her debut collection of short stories, ''All Roads Lead to Blood'', received the 2040 Books Prize.
Life and career
Chau was born and raised in Orange County, California. She credits the South ...
Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles. She won the Kundiman Poetry prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studie ...
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Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.
Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' ...
Anna Chennault
Anna Chennault, born Chan Sheng Mai, later spelled Chen Xiangmei (, actual birth year 1923, but reported as June 23, 1925 – March 30, 2018), also known as Anna Chan Chennault or Anna Chen Chennault, was a war correspondent and prominent Republ ...
Justin Chin
Justin Chin (1969–2015) was a Malaysian-American poet, essayist and performer. In his work he often dealt with queer Asian-American identity and interrogated this category's personal and political circumstances.
Biography
Chin was born in Mala ...
Staceyann Chin
Staceyann Chin (born December 25, 1972) is a spoken-word poet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist. Her work has been published in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', and the ''Pittsburgh Daily'', and has been featu ...
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Frank Ching
Francis D. K. "Frank" Ching (born 1943) is an architecture and design graphics writer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.
Ching was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Not ...
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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 ...
Roshani Chokshi
Roshani Chokshi (born February 14, 1991) is an American children's book author and a New York Times bestselling author.
Personal life
Chokshi's mother is Filipino and her father is Indian, both immigrants to the United States. She grew up sp ...
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 (novel), Eat a Bowl of Tea.''
After emigrating to New Jerse ...
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 ...
Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies (born 30 August 1966), is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.
Biography
Born and raised in Coventry, Davies was a pupil at King Henry VIII School. He studied physics at Manchester University and then En ...
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ''Arrang ...
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Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (; born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American right-wing political commentator, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist. He has written over a dozen books, several of them ''New York Times'' best-sellers.
In 2012, D' ...
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ''Arrang ...
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Do Nguyen Mai
Do, DO or D.O. may refer to:
Languages
* The English verb, ''do'', which may serve as an auxiliary verb; see do-support
* ''Do'' (kana), a mora symbol in Japanese writing
* Ditto mark
People
* Đỗ, a Vietnamese surname
* Do (surname), includes ...
Edith Maude Eaton
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 ...
Jamie Ford
Jamie Ford (born July 9, 1968) is an American author. He is best known for his debut novel, ''Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.'' The book spent 130 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, and was also awarded best "Adult Fiction" b ...
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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'', ' ...
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer.
Fukuyama is known for his book ''The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which argue ...
Sarah Gambito
Sarah Gambito is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, ''Loves You'' (Persea Books, 2019), ''Delivered'' (Persea Books, 2009), and ''Matadora'' (Alice James Books, 2004). Her first collection, ''Matadora ...
Atul Gawande
Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Departme ...
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Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician.
Early life
Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While grow ...
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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 P ...
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Anchee Min
Anchee Min (; born January 14, 1957, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, ''Red Azalea'' and ''The Cooked Seed: A Memoir'', and six historical novels. Her ficti ...
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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 ...
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Khalil Gibran
Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...
Philip Kan Gotanda
Philip Kan Gotanda (born December 17, 1951) is an American playwright and filmmaker and a third generation Japanese American. Much of his work deals with Asian American issues and experiences.
Biography
Over the last three decades Gotanda ha ...
Han Suyin
Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (; 12 September 1917 or 1916 – 2 November 2012) was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin (). She wrote in English and French on modern China, set her novels in East a ...
Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn (born July 5, 1955) is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY. Her works frequently deal with the reinvention of poetic forms and the intersecting of conflicting identities.
Biography ...
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 Ka ...
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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'' (2 ...
Joseph Heco
Joseph Heco (born September 20, 1837 – December 12, 1897) was the first Japanese person to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese language newspaper.
Early years
Hikozō Hamada was born in Harima pro ...
Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong (born August 7, 1976) is an American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative. She was named on the 2021 Time 100 list for her writing ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Pico Iyer
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ''Video Night in Kathmandu ...
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Tania James
Tania James (born 1980) is an Indian American novelist.
Life
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, James was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from Harvard University with a BA in film making. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from ...
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Gish Jen
Gish Jen (born Lillian Jen; () August 12, 1955) is a contemporary American writer and speaker.Matsukawa, Yuko"MELUS interview: Gish Jen" '' MELUS'', Vol. 18, 1993
Early life and education
Gish Jen is a second-generation Chinese American. Her p ...
Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani (born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for ''The New York Times'' from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.
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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 ...
Younghill Kang
Younghill Kang (June 5, 1898 — December 2, 1972, Korean name 강용흘) was an important early Asian American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel ''The Grass Roof'' (the first Korean American novel) and its sequel, the 1937 fictionali ...
Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna (born 27 July 1977 in Kanpur) is an Indian American specialist in geopolitics and globalization. He is the managing partner of FutureMap, and former managing partner of Hybrid Reality as well as Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum.
Early lif ...
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 Asian ...
, author of ''Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context''
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Jaegwon Kim
Jaegwon Kim (September 12, 1934 – November 27, 2019) was a Korean-American philosopher. At the time of his death, Kim was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Brown University. He also taught at several other leading American universities d ...
, philosopher
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Myung Mi Kim
Myung Mi Kim (born December 6, 1957) is a Korean American poet noted for her postmodern writings. Kim and her family immigrated to the United States when she was nine years old. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and lec ...
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 ...
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Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986) is an American writer. Winner of the 2020 Rome Prize, her work has been reviewed in ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', and the ''Los Angele ...
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Lisa Ko
Lisa Ko is an American writer. Her debut novel, ''The Leavers'', won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. She has written for the ''New York Times.''Ko, Lisa, ...
Helena Kuo
Kuo Ching-ch'iu (; 1911 – April 25, 1999), also known as Helena Kuo, was a Chinese-American writer and translator.
She was born in Macao and was educated at Lingnan University and Shanghai University. She worked for the ''Shanghai Evening News ...
Jhumpa Lahiri
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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 ...
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Born in Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. During his filmmaking career, he has received international critical and popula ...
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Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.
Ea ...
Russell Leong
Russell Charles Leong (born 1950) is an academic editor, professor, writer, and long-time Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan student. The long-time editor of Amerasia Journal (1977–2010), Leong was an adjunct professor of English and Asian-American Studi ...
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Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for ''A Thousand Years of Good Pra ...
Adet
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Grace Lin
Grace Lin (born May 17, 1974) is a Taiwanese-American children's writer and illustrator. She is a Newbery, Geisel, and Caldecott honoree, known for contributing to and advocating for Asian-American representation and diversity in children’s lite ...
Tao Lin
Tao Lin (; born July 2, 1983) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published four novels, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a memoir, as well as an extensive assortment of ...
Linh Dinh
Linh Dinh (Vietnamese: , born 1963, Saigon, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer.
He was a 1993 Pew Fellow. He writes a column for '' The Unz Review''.
Biography
Dinh came to the US in 1975, live ...
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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 ...
Timothy Liu
Timothy Liu (born 1965 in San Jose, California) is an American poet and the author of such books as ''Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse'', ''For Dust Thou Art'', ''Of Thee I Sing'', ''Hard Evidence'', ''Say Goodnight'', ''Burnt Offeri ...
Mimi Lok
Mimi Lok is a British-Chinese author, editor, and educator. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian (magazine), Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, A PEN America Award, and a California Book Award for Fiction. She is also the founder of Voice of Witness, ...
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Bette Bao Lord
Bette Bao Lord ( Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy.
Early life
Lord was born as Bette Bao in Shanghai, China. With her mother and fa ...
Ling Ma
Ling Ma is a Chinese American novelist and assistant professor of practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago. Her first book, '' Severance'', won a 2018 Kirkus Prize and was listed as a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of 2018 and shortlist ...
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Adeline Yen Mah
Adeline Yen Mah () is a Chinese-American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and is known for her autobiography ''Falling Leaves''. She is married to Professor Robert A. Mah with whom she has a daughter, and a s ...
Michelle Malkin
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Sujata Massey
Sujata Massey is an American mystery author and historical fiction novelist. Her books are published in English in the US and Canada, the United Kingdom and India, and Australia/New Zealand. Massey’s novels are also available in different langu ...
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.
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Hasan Minhaj
Hasan Minhaj ( ; born September 23, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host of Indian descent. His Netflix show ''Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj'' won two Peabody Awards and two Webby Aw ...
David Mura
David Mura (born 1952) is an American author, poet, novelist, playwright, critic and performance artist whose writings explore the themes of race, identity and history. In 2018, Mura has published a book on creative writing, ''A Stranger’s Jour ...
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Milton Murayama
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An Na
An Na (born 1972) is a South Korea-born American children's book author. She gained success with her first novel ''A Step From Heaven'', published by Front Street Press in 2001, which won the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Libr ...
Sunil Nayar
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Qui Nguyen
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Care ...
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Nguyen Qui Duc
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Born in Da Lat, Vietnam, he came to the United States in 1975, returning in the fall of 2006 to live in Hanoi, Vietnam. ...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Yone Noguchi
was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the west as Yone Noguchi. He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Biography
Early life in Japan
Nog ...
Miné Okubo
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Pai Hsien-yung
Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (; born July 11, 1937) is a Chinese writer from Taiwan who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) ge ...
, Chinese Muslim writer
* Gary Pak, author of ''Children of a Fireland: A Novel'' (2004) and ''Language of the Geckos and Other Stories'' (2005)
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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 ...
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Ty Pak
Ty Pak (born Tae-Yong Pak in 1938) is a writer and speaker on Korean/Asian American affairs and literature.
Biography
Born in Korea shortly before World War II, Pak witnessed Japanese colonial rule, Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, its ...
, author of ''Guilt Payment'' (1983) and ''Moonbay: Short Stories'' (1999)
* Linda Sue Park, novelist
* Therese Park
* Yongsoo Park, 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
* Craig Santos Perez
* Andrew X. Pham
* Aimee Phan
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Bao Phi
Bao Phi is a Vietnamese-American spoken word artist, writer and community activist living in Minnesota. Bao Phi's collection of poems, ''Sông I Sing'', was published in 2011 and, ''Thousand Star Hotel,'' was published in 2017 by Coffee House Pre ...
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 ...
Rishi Reddi
Rishi Reddi is an American author. She is a L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award laureate.
Biography
Rishi Reddi was born in Hyderabad, India. She grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States.
She is a graduate of Swarthmore College, wher ...
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''Whit ...
Bienvenido Santos
Bienvenido N. Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the ...
Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri (born 13 February 1954) is an American, Brooklyn, New York–based poet, essayist and literary critic.
Vijay won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, for ''3 Sections''.
Early life
Vijay's parents immigrated to the United States ...
Naren Shankar
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Prageeta Sharma
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Life
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Sun Yung Shin
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Bapsi Sidhwa
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Bhagat Singh Thind
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Sherry Thomas
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Truong Tran
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Early life
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Yoshiko Uchida
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Abraham Verghese
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Padma Viswanathan
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Life
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Saymoukda Vongsay
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Ocean Vuong
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Weike Wang
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Shawn Wong
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Lisa Yee
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Paul Yoon
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Monica Youn
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Charles Yu
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Laurence Yep
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Connie Young Yu
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Judy Yung
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Fareed Zakaria
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Kat Zhang
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Helen Zia
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Before Columbus Foundation
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List of American writers of Korean descent
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List of Asian Canadian writers
This is a list of Asian Canadian writers.
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* Ken Adachi
*Kamal Al-Solaylee
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*Sharon Bala
*Shauna Singh Baldwin
* Himani Bannerji
* Kaushalya Bannerji
* Gurjinder Basran
*Ven Begamudré
*H. S. Bhabra
* Navtej Bharati
* Eddy Boudel Tan
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