Mi Jin Kim was born in Seoul and grew up in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, her fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Quarter after Eight, and swamp pink. Her new book Invitation: … Continue reading Excerpt: Invitation
Eric C. Wat is the author of Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles, winner of the 2023 Outstanding Achievement in History Award from the Association of Asian American Studies; the novel SWIM, a Los Angeles Times bestseller; and The Making of a Gay … Continue reading Excerpt: Daddy Issues
María Teresa Fernández Aceves is a professor of social anthropology at Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social–Occidente in Jalisco, Mexico. She is the author of a book in Spanish about women in twentieth-century Mexico. Her newest book, Freethinkers … Continue reading Excerpt: Freethinkers and Labor Leaders
Hannah Kim is an associate professor of history and a co-coordinator of the social studies education program at the University of Delaware, Newark. Kim is the author of Ties that Bind: People and Perception in U.S. and Korean Transnational Relations, 1905–1965 … Continue reading Excerpt: Ties that Bind
Nicholas O’Connell is based in Washington State and is the founder of the Writer’s Workshop. He contributes to media outlets such as Newsweek, Food & Wine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. O’Connell is the author of five books, including The … Continue reading Excerpt: Crush
Thomas A. Krainz is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. He is the author of Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West. His latest book A Great Many Refugees: Progressive Era Assistance in the American West (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: A Great Many Refugees
Pamela Smith Hill is a New York Times best-selling editor, author, educator, and expert on Laura Ingalls Wilder. She has taught young adult literature and creative and professional writing at universities in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, as well as classes on Laura Ingalls … Continue reading Excerpt: Too Good to be Altogether Lost
Jim Leeke is a former journalist, copywriter, and retired creative director. He interviewed Ron Luciano during Luciano’s first book tour in 1982. Leeke is the author of several books, including The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during … Continue reading Excerpt: Big Loosh
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022), among other books. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She … Continue reading Excerpt: Invisible Contrarian
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease. Her latest book 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s … Continue reading Excerpt: 90 Seconds to Midnight
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