AAPI Authors & Writers
Authors, writers, journalists, novelists, memoirists, and other storytellers from the Asian American Pacific Islander community
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@amychenwrites.bsky.social
@dearclarissa.bsky.social
Freelance writer. Author of MADE IN TAIWAN. www.clarissawei.com
@jaminlin.bsky.social
//author of the illustrated speculative memoir THE NIGHT PARADE (Mariner/HarperCollins, Scribe UK 2024) //in NYT, Sewanee Review, Good Housekeeping, Electric Lit, etc //writes about bipolar, ADHD, parenting, etc //japanese taiwanese okinawan
@gracikim.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of MG books | The Last Fallen Star + Moon + Realm | DREAMSLINGER coming April 2025 | www.gracikim.com
@yvonneliuwriter.bsky.social
Over 3 million read HuffPost #adoptee essay. NYT, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News. PEN America & Bread Loaf Writers support. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholarship. Modern Love podcast. Mental Health Advocate. Inkwell Mgmt. #writer #memoirs
@beyonkz.bsky.social
@laurachowfun.bsky.social
🌀writing + drawing 🐍 author: A SMALL APOCALYPSE (@nupress.bsky.social) 🔗 linktr.ee/laurachowfun
@yangwrites.bsky.social
Author and engineer. Novels: OASIS, a love story and climate fiction, Cai Emmons Fiction Award winner, scheduled to be published by the Red Hen Press in spring 2027. MY GOOD SON (UNO Publishing Lab Prize), MY OLD FAITHFUL (stories), LIVING TREASURES.
@michelleyoung.bsky.social
Author, journalist, entrepreneur. THE ART SPY forthcoming @HarperOneBooks & SECRET BROOKLYN. Founder @UntappedNY Professor @ColumbiaGSAPP https://michelleyoungwriter.com/theartspy
@gloriachao.bsky.social
Author & Screenwriter • EX MARKS THE SPOT (Out now!) • THE EX-GIRLFRIEND MURDER CLUB (6.24.25) • WHEN YOU WISH UPON A LANTERN 🏮 • RENT A BOYFRIEND 💕 • OUR WAYWARD FATE 🦋 • AMERICAN PANDA🐼
@maggietokudahall.bsky.social
kids and young adult book author. The horrors never cease but neither do I. Founding member of Authors Against Book Bans. (She/her) blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽 Prettyokmaggie.com
@grahseeya.bsky.social
author. political junkie. abolitionist. i have a weakness for slogan tees. linktr.ee/GrahSeeYa
@karahlchen.bsky.social
LOVE & RESISTANCE (Quill Tree/HarperCollins), ASKING FOR A FRIEND (Quill Tree/HarperCollins). Rep: Alex Slater, SJGA. 🇹🇼🇺🇸
@murmurshewrote.bsky.social
Author, HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER (W.W. Norton & Company) | Faculty @CalArts | www.murielleung.com
@emmelineschang.bsky.social
WRITER ⛥ | Taiwanese Am | Fiction, NF, MG | Seal Press HuffPost BigCityLit | Tin House VONA Kenyon Review Ragdale VCCA Millay | MFA Columbia | Rep: Erin Harris at Folio linktr.ee/emmelinechang www.emmelinechang.com
@carolynkhuynh.bsky.social
Unhinged romancier who writes hopecore endings. Never happy to be here. www.carolynkhuynh.com
@mayleechai.bsky.social
Writer. Prof at SFSU. Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain, etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
@mikechenwriter.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author Dabbles in time travel and vampires, Star Wars and Star Trek, novels and comics. Former NHL guy. Friend of dogs. Currently: What if... Moon Knight/Venom Next: The Photonic Effect Mikechenwriter on all socials.
@crystalhanak.bsky.social
Author of THE STONE HOME (April 2024) and IF YOU LEAVE ME (2018) | 2022 NBF 5 Under 35 | Korean American 🌊
@lisayee.bsky.social
New York Times Bestseller, Newbery Honoree, National Book Award Finalist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire, #KidLit Author
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project. #DisabilityJustice feed I created: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho More about me https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
@julieleong.bsky.social
USA Today, Sunday Times, and Indie Bestselling Author of THE TELLER OF SMALL FORTUNES, out now // chinese-malaysian american // repped by Paul Lucas // she/her https://linktr.ee/julieleongbooks
@joannahowrites.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling author • Intl speaker • Educator. Eyes that Kiss in the Corners. We Who Produce Pearls. The Silence that Binds Us.
@malindalo.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
@aimeephan.bsky.social
writer. books: the lost queen (ya fantasy duology, putnam May 2025) we should never meet, the reeducation of cherry truong. teacher: california college of the arts. bay area.
@bethnguyen.bsky.social
Books: Owner of a Lonely Heart (Scribner); Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Viking/Penguin); two novels. Guggenheim fellow. CW prof at UW-Madison
@thesusanito.bsky.social
Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. 🥚 website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto
@melissahung.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. Founding editor, Hyphen. Writing about immigrant communities, Asian America, culture, food, disability & more. ‘24 Sewanee scholar. melissahung.xyz
@stephcha.bsky.social
Author of Juniper Song novels and Your House Will Pay. Series editor of Best American Mystery & Suspense. TV writer.
@tracybadua.bsky.social
Author, lawyer, devourer of caffeine and chocolate Latest: THEA & THE MISCHIEF MAKERS Upcoming: THEIR JUST DESSERTS, GHOUL SUMMER www.tracybadua.com
@authorgracelin.bsky.social
Newbery & Caldecott Honor & Legacy Award & NBA Finalist • contact Hachette Speakers Bureau for appearance requests • https://linktr.ee/authorgracelin
@jchenwriter.bsky.social
Journalist. HANGRY HEARTS (out 3/18/24). WriteGirl LA mentor. Twin/pug/cat mom.
@gracelp.bsky.social
Writing about belonging & diaspora in NYT, Longreads, LitHub, The Offing and elsewhere. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024)
@evejchung.bsky.social
Women’s human rights lawyer with a background in international criminal law. National bestselling author of DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG (2024). Opinions my own
@jemmawei.bsky.social
Big nap energy✨ THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER, @doubledaybooks (US) / W&N (UK) 2025 // Stegner Fellow @Stanford // De Alba Fellow @Columbia // Rep: Jackie Ko at The Wylie Agency
@kirstinchen.bsky.social
NYTimes bestselling author of Counterfeit, Bury What We Cannot Take & Soy Sauce for Beginners. Tech Wives, forthcoming 2026 🌸
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@iamlisako.bsky.social
📚 MEMORY PIECE (2024) 📚 THE LEAVERS (2017) Nationally bestselling novelist • National Book Award finalist • New Yorker http://lisa-ko.com
@rfkuang.bsky.social
author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale sinophone + asian american lit BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc... https://linktr.ee/kuangrf
@amytan.bsky.social
Author of The Joy Luck Club, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and more. AMYTAN.net
@vanessahua.bsky.social
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming EL NIDO
@karissachen.bsky.social
Author of HOMESEEKING, coming Jan 7, 2025. Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Lit. EIC of Hyphen.
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@originalsp.in
TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America Pic: thx @gregpak!
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@xtinehlee.bsky.social
Author of TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER Ecco/Harper Collins | 🐓+🐝💨 | doberman mind, dachshund body | she/they Cuddle fish: christinehlee.substack.com IG: @xtinehleewriter Rep: Ayesha Pande
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@abelletm.bsky.social
Filipina-Slavic Florida woman. Author of THE MANGO TREE (called “sweet, sharp” by the NYT). Recovering restaurant critic. Former French guy.
@qianjuliewang.bsky.social
ex-undocumented; ex-biglaw • managing partner, Gottlieb & Wang LLP • author, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
@mjuhae.bsky.social
Author of STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House). Journalist, public speaker, waning soccer mom, enthusiastic dog owner, my own social media manager, Writers Grotto member. www.margaretjuhaelee.com
@amychenwrites.bsky.social
Writer, editor, dog mom Repped by Alicia Brooks, Martin Literary Management