Asian American Creatives
Asian American writers, artists, filmmakers, creatives—in process
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@tamikonimura.bsky.social
@aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social
Poet/Painter/Teacher | COMMON GRACE (Beacon Press) | UBASUTE (Slapering Hol Press) | Macdowell Fellow | Words in Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily, Salamander | http://aaroncaycedokimura.com |
@trungles.com
Minneapolis. Cartoon fellow. Author and illustrator of the award-winning OGN, The Magic Fish. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. He/him, They/them Support my work: patreon.com/trungles Links: https://bio.site/trungles
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
poet • phd in english • 2 books with BOA Editions • latest chapbook @ghostcitypress.bsky.social • abolish the police & free palestine • https://www.chenchenwrites.com/the-latest
@christinahyun.bsky.social
👩🏻💻 Writer of Love & Suspense | 🏡 Realtor | 💕 Mom | 📚🐶🍳 Lover of books, dogs, & bfast all day | Rep: Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group | IG: christina.hyun My Indy short stories: http://amazon.com/author/christinahyun
@drkoolkarni.bsky.social
Teacher Educator, Disability, Race and Early Ed Discipline, DisCrit Scholar (Disability Studies Critical Race)
@jenpmeadows.bsky.social
Creative Nonfiction Writer. Essays. Memoir in Progress. Work in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Denver Quarterly, Hobart. Sacramento Valley via SoCal. jenpalmaresmeadows.com
@gregpak.net
Rhymes with "rock." Call your reps (reps.fyi) & help your neighbor. #DidThisToday Comics writer, filmmaker, photographer. PLANET HULK, MECH CADET YU, LAWFUL. He/him. gregpak.fyi (this account is me in sweatpants. @gregpak.com is me in chinos lol)
@write2redress.bsky.social
@shirleyhuey.bsky.social
Writer/reader/eater/wanderer. SF born + raised. Words: Catapult, Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, & Nature, EatingWell, sparkle+blink, Berkeleyside, & others. Former atty. Member, Writers Grotto. https://www.shirleyhuey.com
@wordbinder23.bsky.social
Spec Fic author, erstwhile poet, writing coach, performance storyteller… in love with Topps Star Wars trading cards, Funkos, Fil-Am culture, and Indigenous Rights.
@laurakina.bsky.social
Queer crip mixed-race Uchinanchu American artist-scholar-activist •Painter •Professor, Art School, DePaul University •Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture series editor UW Press •Curator Virtual Asian American Art Museum https://linktr.ee/LauraKina
@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
@akemijohnson.bsky.social
📕 Author of NIGHT IN THE AMERICAN VILLAGE 📗 Current project: Tule Lake & the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans (One Signal/Atria/Simon & Schuster) akemijohnson.com
@vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead. Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and the forthcoming To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
@sejalshah.bsky.social
Award winning author of This Is One Way to Dance: Essays, an NPR best book of the year & How to Make Your Mother Cry: fictions. Words in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, the Guardian, The Rumpus & others. More at www.sejal-shah.com.
@seanmiura.bsky.social
exhibitions, Japanese American National Museum. producer/lead curator, Tuesday Night Cafe. los angeles.
@kenjiliu-art.bsky.social
kenjiliu.com/link-in-bio Painting my life & the world I want to see • Fine art originals & prints for sale #artforsale #commissions • Los Angeles • ☸️🪷🙏🏽🇹🇼🇯🇵 📖: Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books)
@momo-chang.bsky.social
Senior Editor at Civil Eats Former co-director of Oakland Voices at Maynard Institute, content manager at Center for Asian American Media, senior editor at Hyphen magazine, freelance writer photographer and small wave surfer she/her www.momochang.com
@gwangung.bsky.social
Asian American theatre geek Producer/playwright/designer/advocate Head of Pork Filled Productions Sec., Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Editor, Asian American Theatre Revue Star Fleet Security, Posting: Betazed Very quiet jackal.
@frankabe.bsky.social
Co-editor, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION. Lead author, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Blogs at http://Resisters.com. Links: https://linktr.ee/
@minal.bsky.social
Unicorn Whisperer | Author of 5 books | Book coach for changemakers 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✍🏾📚 www.unicornauthors.club
@takeoriveraphd.bsky.social
Asian American studies professor at Boston University's dept of English. Critical ethnic studies, performance theory, queer theory, video games. Playwright. Author of “Model Minority Masochism.” Also jokes. He/him.
@sonorajha.bsky.social
Pre-order INTEMPERANCE (2025). Author of THE LAUGHTER (2023), HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON (2021) and FOREIGN (2013). Prof of journalism at Seattle University. CW instructor at Hugo House. She/her
@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.
@aaww-nyc.bsky.social
Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future. Subscribe → http://eepurl.com/gNlHV1 ✨🍉 aaww.org
@rsokamoto.bsky.social
I like writing, fishing, cooking, and baseball. Creator/host of the Chapel Probation podcast. Author of Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University.
@rtajimapena.bsky.social
Filmmaker PBS Asian Americans, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, May 19th Project, No Más Bebés, Calavera Highway & more Professor at UCLA
@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
@sunyungshin.bsky.social
🍉 Author of forthcoming Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, The Wet Hex, Unbearable Splendor, + 11 other books. Rep: Tia Ikemoto @CAA & bookings: Anya Backlund @BlueFlowerArts. www.sunyungshin.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
@lisatakeuchicullen.bsky.social
I am a TV writer and President of the Writers Guild of America East. Former journalist (TIME) and sometime author. New Jersey by way of Japan 🇯🇵 🇺🇸
@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
@readingspark.bsky.social
Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Children’s Literature; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com Cover art: Nancy So Miller Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (EMLA)
@kristinawong.bsky.social
🍆Guggenheim Fellow, Doris Duke Artist, Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama and the face that used to launch 1000 free meals off Tinder. www.KristinaWong.com 🧵🪡
@iamlisako.bsky.social
📚 MEMORY PIECE (2024) 📚 THE LEAVERS (2017) Nationally bestselling novelist • National Book Award finalist • New Yorker http://lisa-ko.com
@eugenialeigh.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal Valentines Editor @ Honey Literary
@curtischin.bsky.social
Writer, producer, co-founder AAWW. Written for ABC, Disney Channel, PBS, CNN, Bon Appetit, etc. New memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” (Little, Brown)
@toddkaneko.bsky.social
Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad https://linktr.ee/toddkaneko
@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
@kikuhughes.bsky.social
I'm Kiku Hughes (she/her), a mixed-race Yonsei (4th generation Japanese American) cartoonist from Seattle. I'm the creator of APALA honor title and Eisner award nominated comic "Displacement." These days also deeply involved in Tsuru for Solidarity
@oneofthejohns.bsky.social
(He/Him) Award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. Serve on the board of directors for Literary Arts. www.oneofthejohns.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/
@karissachen.bsky.social
Author of HOMESEEKING, coming Jan 7, 2025. Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Lit. EIC of Hyphen.
@ellenoh.bsky.social
I write MG & YA books that win awards from people not related to me. Founding member of WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS. Fight Book Bans!!!
@quincetessence.bsky.social
Host and Producer of @AsianAmericana.com, a podcast about Asian American culture and history. Actor, journalist, managing editor at @fi2w.org, Thai Chip & Dale. Thai-Teochew American (he/him)
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social
Biracial Asian writer. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). Shirley Jackson finalist. Features & Reviews ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. sensitivity reader. http://www.addietsai.com
@jamieford.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET and THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY. Decent writer. Failed poet. Stridently self-deprecating. https://linktr.ee/JamieFordAuthor
@anthonyocampo.bsky.social
Writing ON THE MARGINS OF JUSTICE | Wrote THE LATINOS OF ASIA, BROWN & GAY IN LA | VONA | Tin House | Asian Am Sociology Editor, NYU Press | Rep’d by: Amanda Orozco | Speaking: jean@speakoutnow.org | Sociology Professor, Cal Poly Pomona | MFA Student, SFSU
@nancywyuen.bsky.social
sociologist of the people | author, Reel Inequality | professor, speaker, moderator, freelancer | she/her/Dr.
@hannahbae.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, illustrator 2020 Rona Jaffe award winner 2019 AAWW fellow ½ of @eatdrinkdraw AAJA for life Alum of CNN, Newsday, U.S. Embassy Seoul & more
@vanessahua.bsky.social
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming EL NIDO
@thellpsx.bsky.social
writer,The Future Is Disabled,Care Work,Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival. transformative & disability justice structural engineer,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. older cousin w great tits & opinions,they/we brownstargirl.org
@melissahung.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. Founding editor, Hyphen. Writing about immigrant communities, Asian America, culture, food, disability & more. ‘24 Sewanee scholar. melissahung.xyz
@anjalienjeti.bsky.social
Atlanta-area author of Southbound & The Parted Earth; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
@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)
@jennyyangtv.bsky.social
jennyyang.tv 💪🏽 standup comedian, tv writer, actor 🎙️ food, culture, community 📍 Los Angeles, CA @whatshouldwepod @selfhelpmeshow contact@jennyyang.tv jennyyang.substack.com
@kikutowne.bsky.social
A monotone cult classic. Creator of Welcome to My Life, City of Ghosts, & Mall Stories (she/her/dude). Worked on Adventure Time & a lot of other stuff. Open for work / ✌️🖤
@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.
@esmewang.com
📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise 🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller 🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com 🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her 🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
@amychu.bsky.social
#Legohoarder #whiskeysipper I write comics graphic novels TV Marvel DC Netflix Emma Frost: White Queen Borderlands Carmilla the First Vampire Red Sonja Poison Ivy DOTA Dragon’s Blood Turning Red #WGA rep Gersh Vern Co
@samiraahmed.bsky.social
NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn. Next: The Singular Life of Aria Patel (5/13/25) Politics. Prose. Pastries.
@jenny8lee.bsky.social
Entrepreneur, journalist, film produceru. Also co-creator of 🥟🥡🥠. Member of Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. Working on a literary x AI project with @srhm.bsky.social.
@reappropriate.bsky.social
Asian American feminism and racial justice. Blogging since 2002. I like pangolins.
@geneluenyang.bsky.social
Cartoonist and Comic Book Writer 🧧American Born Chinese 🏀Dragon Hoops 🐢Secret Coders 🗡Books of Clash 🦸🏻♂️Superman Smashes the Klan 👊🏼Shang-Chi 🐵Monkey Prince ☁️Avatar
@angryasianman.bsky.social
Angry Asian Man. RISE: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now. They Call Us Bruce. All The Asians On Star Trek. Stay Angry. angryasianman.com
@fondalee.bsky.social
NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. Breath of the Dragon out now. News: http://eepurl.com/O9JDn
@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
@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!
@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
@rfkuang.bsky.social
author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale sinophone + asian american lit BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc... https://linktr.ee/kuangrf
@knguyen.bsky.social
features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://mydocuments.cargo.site/
@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
@anildash.com
that guy from the internet • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and xmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • see https://anildash.com
@georgetakei.bsky.social
I’ve boldly gone into the clear blue yonder. Follow for more recipes and tips.
@edyong209.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
@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
@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
@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
@tamikonimura.bsky.social
Writer, community journalist, public historian. Words in SF Chronicle, Zocalo Public Square, Smithsonian, Discover Nikkei, HistoryLink, The Rumpus. Occasional poet, food writer. 4ever English major. <3: @joshpar.bsky.social Rep: Transatlantic Agency