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Hiro Arikawa is a renowned author from Tokyo. Her novel The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a bestseller in Japan and is due to be published around the world. |
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Alafair Burke graduated from Reed College and Stanford Law School, then became a Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon where she worked as a trial lawyer. She currently teaches criminal law and procedure at Hofstra Law School. |
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Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors won Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards, was nominated for the Le Guin, Lammy, Hugo awards, among others. His second novel Rakesfall is a New York Times Notable Book of 2024. |
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Farah Heron writes romantic comedies and women's fiction full of huge South Asian families, delectable food, and most importantly, brown people falling stupidly in love. She lives in Toronto with her husband, two children, and a rabbit named Strawberry. |
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Lauren Kung Jessen is a mixed-race Chinese American writer with a fondness for witty, flirtatious dialogue, and making meals with too many steps but lots of flavor. She also has a food and film blog, A Dash of Cinema, where she makes food inspired by movies and TV shows. She lives in Nashville with her husband. |
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Marjan Kamali, born in Turkey to Iranian parents, spent her childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award. |
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Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University, and now teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She has received several awards including the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, the Korean Literature Novel Award, and the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian. |
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Kim is a graduate of Princeton University. Her writing has been published in Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the Independent, Zyzzyva, Guernica, and other outlets. Born in Korea and raised in Portland, Oregon, Kim now lives in London. |
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Jackie Lau decided she wanted to be a writer when she was in grade two, sometime between penning "The Heart That Got Lost" and "The Land of Shapes." She later studied engineering and worked as a geophysicist before turning to writing romance novels. She is now the author of over a dozen romantic comedies. |
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Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in Ashiya, Japan. |
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Ruth Ozeki received degrees in English literature and Asian studies from Smith College. She is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her documentary and dramatic independent films, including Body of Correspondence and Halving the Bones, have been shown on PBS and at the Sundance Film Festival. |
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A graduate of New York University’s MFA program, Peng is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona, where she rode horses and trained in classical ballet, and has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Mexico City, and New York. |
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Sue Lynn Tan is a fantasy and romance author, known for her "Celestial Kingdom Duology," which includes Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior. Her work draws inspiration from Chinese mythology and folklore. She has been a USA Today and Sunday Times bestseller, and her books are translated into multiple languages. |
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Nghi Vo is a Vietnamese American author, known for her speculative fiction and fantasy novels. Vo was born in Illinois and now lives in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. |
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Chinese American author Weike Wang writes moving and reflective relationship-focused novels. Her characters are authentic and flawed; like Wang, her female protagonists are often Harvard University-educated with immigrant parents who juggle personal, familial, and cultural conundrums that feel relatable. |
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