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About the Contributors
SANDEE BRAWARSKY's articles and essays have appeared in various publications including The New York Times. Her latest book, Two Jews, Three Opinions: A Collection of Twentieth Century American Jewish Quotations, was reissued this fall. DARYL CHIN co-founded the Asian American International Film Festival, and is Associate Editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. He is finishing his monograph on the video artist Shigeko Kubota, to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. ALVIN ENG is the editor and compiler of Tokens? The NYC Asian American Experience On Stage (Asian American Writers' Workshop/Temple University Press, 2000). His plays, poetry, and lyrics have also been published in Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival (1997, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) among others. GEOFFREY EU edits the Insight Guides series of travel books. LETHA HADADY, D., Ac., is the author of Personal Renewal and Asian Health Series (Random House). She stars in Asian Health Secrets, a popular Winstar video shot in New York's Chinatown. BRUCE EDWARD HALL's Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown (Free Press) was the Booklist Editors Choice for 1998. He has also written about China and Chinatown for the New York Times, and won the Best Magazine Article award from the Society of American Travel Writers. BETTY HALLOCK attributes her interest in Asian food to a Japanese mother whose appetite for sushi is unmatched. Betty was born in Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is currently a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. REENA JANA is the New York Contributing Editor to Hong Kong's Asian Art News and World Sculpture News magazines, a U.S. Correspondent to Flash Art International, and a contributor to ArtForum, Art Asia Pacific, Art & Auction, Wired, the New York Times Magazine and Time Out New York. THERESA KIMM is a freelance writer and fiction writer living in Brooklyn. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she immigrated to Minnesota at the age of 10. After graduating from University of Minnesota at Minneapolis with a B.A. in American Studies, she moved to New York City to become a writer. ALEXIS LIPSITZ is an award-winning writer and editor living in New York City, and is currently an editor at Frommer's Travel. ARTHUR J. PAIS has taught journalism at New York University, Marymount Manhattan College and Montclair State University. His articles have appeared in the New York Times. He has also written for Variety, Chicago Tribune, Newsday and India Today. KENNETH WAPNER is an author, editor, journalist and book packager. The books he has worked on include the Los Angeles Times bestseller Bones of the Master (Bantam, 2000). CARRIE BORETZ is a photojournalist who has been published widely in newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, U.S. News and World Report, People and Newsweek. She lives in New York City with her husband, photographer Edward Keating and their two daughters, Caitlin and Emmy. CORKY LEE was born and raised in Queens, N.Y., Lee is a second-generation Chinese American. While studying American history at Queens College, he began his career in photography. Since then, photojournalist Corky Lee's life mission has been to document the incredibly diverse Asian American communities ignored by mainstream media. Corky Lee lives in New York City.
