Contributors
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Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr. is an assistant professor of Asian and Asian American studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is co-editor (with Stanley I. Thangaraj and Christina B. Chin) of Asian American Sporting Cultures (2016). He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, Filipina/o American Crossovers: Sporting Cultures in the Filipina/o Diaspora.
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen is a 2018 Lambda Literary Award winner and his publications include two plays, Draw The Circle (Dramatists Play Service) and The Betterment Society (Methuen Books), as well as short stories and essays. His work has been supported by New Dramatists, Sundance Institute, Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Playwrights Center, among others. (www.mashuqmushtaqdeen.com).
Thaomi Michelle Dinh is an English PhD candidate at the University of Washington. Her dissertation explores different forms of care in post-war Vietnamese American cultural production.
Rachel Endo is dean and a professor of education at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Her main scholarly interests are Asian American education and urban education. She is the author of The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in the 1940s: Literature for the High School Classroom (2018, the National Council of Teachers of English).
Kawika Guillermo's debut novel, Stamped: an anti-travel novel, won the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Creative Writing: Prose Book Award. His latest novel, All Flowers Bloom, was released in March 2020. Under his legal name, Christopher B. Patterson, he is an assistant professor in the Social Justice [End Page 179] Institute at the University of British Columbia, and is the author of the books Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press, 2018), and Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games (New York University Press, 2020).
Christine Kitano is the author of two collections of poetry, Sky Country (BOA Editions) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House Press). Born and raised in Los Angeles, she currently lives in Upstate New York where she is an assistant professor at Ithaca College and teaches poetry and Asian American literature. She also serves on the faculty for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Gowri Koneswaran is a queer Tamil writer, performing artist, teacher, and lawyer based in Washington, DC. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, environmental protection, the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused in the United States, and justice and accountability in Sri Lanka. Gowri's publication credits include several poems and two journal articles on the environmental impacts of farming animals for food. She is poetry coordinator at the nonprofit arts organization BloomBars and a fellow of the Asian American literary organization Kundiman.
Angela Liu is a pseudonym for the author who wishes to remain anonymous.
James McMaster is an assistant professor of Asian American studies and gender and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently working on a book project that puts the discourse of care theory into conversation with queer, feminist, and Asian Americanist critique and cultural production. His writing has appeared, or will soon, in American Quarterly, TDR/ The Drama Review, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.
erin Khuê Ninh writes about the model minority as racialization and subject formation (i.e., not as myth). Her monographs on the topic are Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature (New York University Press, 2011), and Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities (Temple University Press, 2021).
Juliana Hu Pegues is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of American Indian Studies and the Asian American Studies Program, and is part of the Race, Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RIGS) Initiative. She has worked for a number of social justice organizations including RadAzns, the Justice for Fong Lee Committee, the Women's Prison Book Project, Asian American Renaissance, and Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. [End Page 180]
Shireen Roshanravan is an associate professor of American ethnic studies at Kansas State University. She is co-editor with Lynn Fujiwara of Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics...
