Asian Pacific American Book Festival May 11, 2007

If you’re in the Los Angeles area check out:

The Asian Pacific American Book Festival 

Free Admission

Saturday, May 12, 2007
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Japanese American National Museum and
the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

369 East First Street (corner of 1st and Central in Downtown LA/Little Tokyo)

Asian Pacific American Book Festival Confirmed Participants
Noel Alumit / novelist
Teena Apeles / nonfiction writer
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard / fiction writer
Victoria Chang / poet
Alison De La Cruz / multi-disciplinary artist and cultural organizer
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla / novelist
Sesshu Foster / poet
Linda Furiya / food memoirist
Tracey Gee / coeditor
John Hamamura / novelist
Denise Hamilton / mystery author
Naomi Hirahara / mystery author
Toyomi Igus / children’s book author
Cynthia Kadohata / children’s book author and novelist
Blossom Kan and Michelle Yu / chick lit authors
Traci Kato-Kiriyama / inter-disciplinary artist
Ketu Katrak / UC Irvine professor and nonfiction writer
Shishir Kurup / performance artist
Dan Kwong / performance artist and author
Ann Le / writer
Lela Lee / creator, Angry Little Girls
Philip Lee / cofounder, Lee and Low Books
William Poy Lee / memoirist
Sunyoung Lee / editor, Kaya Books
Russell Leong / editor, fiction writer and poet
Claire Light / speculative fiction writer and cofounder, Hyphen Magazine
Aimee Liu / memoirist
Pooja Makhijani / children’s book author
David Mas Masumoto / memoirist
Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong / co-editors of Giant Robot magazine
An Mai Nguyen / publisher
Rick Noguchi / poet and children’s book author
Angela Oh / memoirist
Mae Respicio / nonfiction author
Nina Revoyr / novelist
Luis J. Rodriguez / memoirist
Brian Ascalon Roley / novelist
Icy Smith / publisher
Eileen Tabios / poet
David Ulin / editor, LA Times Book Review
Denise Uyehara / performance artist and author
Amy Uyematsu / poet
Patricia Wakida / former editor, Heyday Books
Duncan Williams / UC Berkeley associate professor and nonfiction writer
Paula Yoo / television writer and children’s book author
Charles Yu / short story writer
Phil Yu / blogger and creator, Angry Asian Man
Sandra Zane / agent, Global Literary Management