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Author Biography

Karen Tei Yamashita, the author of four previous books and an American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award recipient, has been heralded as a “big talent” by the Los Angeles Times, extolled by the New York Times for her “mordant wit,” and praised by Newsday for “wrestl[ing] with profound philosophical and social issues” while delivering an “immensely entertaining story.” A California native who has also lived in Brazil and Japan, she is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where she received the Chancellor's Award for Diversity in 2009.

About the illustrators
Leland Wong's art and photography have been widely published and exhibited both nationally and locally in the Asian American communities.  He still remains active as an artist, screen printer, and photographer in the Asian American community of San Francisco for over forty years.

Sina Grace is the author of Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic, and the comic book series Books with Pictures. He also provided illustrations for Amber Benson's Among the Ghosts, a children's book for Simon and Schuster. He lives in Los Angeles.

Also by this author:

• Circle K Cycles
• Brazil-Maru
• Tropic of Orange
• Through the Arc of the Rain Forest