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Chinese American authors

Jan

8

2026

Seattle Magazine features “108 Asian Cookies” author, Kat Lieu

From Seattle Magazine Dec 31, 2025 By Daniel Anderson Cookies From Home Seattle author Kat Lieu introduces a first-of-its-kind cookbook centered on Asian cookies. Kat Lieu has built a career out of baking, storytelling, and standing up for what she believes in. A former doctor of physical therapy turned bestselling cookbook author, she’s based in Seattle, …

Oct

14

2025

Daniel Tam-Claiborne on his ‘lyrical, propulsive, coming-of-age’ debut novel

In Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s Transplants, a chance encounter at a university campus in rural Qixian sets the lives of two young women on radically different trajectories: Lin, a reticent Chinese student who ends up matriculating at a community college in rural Ohio, and Liz, a grieving Chinese American ESL teacher who stays in China to learn …

May

29

2023

Four Treasures of the Sky
by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

  A retelling of the Lin Daiyu tale from 1880s China to the American West. A story about fate and reclaiming your own history. –Michelle, Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA  Finish AAPI Heritage Month strong with selections from Edmonds Bookshop and other bookstores, and keep supporting Asian authors all year long.  

Jun

23

2021

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin (novel cover)

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

The Thousand Crime of Ming Tsu is a page-turning, violent, and rip-roaring reimagining of the Western and revenge genres. Myriad influences reflect and refract off of each other in exciting and refreshing ways, creating a novel that pays strong homage to the classic revenge and western tales but is also wholly its own. Following Chinese-American …

Jun

11

2020

Superman Smashes the Klan
by Gene Luen Yang, illustrated by Gurihiru

Superman Smashes the Klan is a update of a Golden Age radio drama that writer Gene Luen Yang and illustrator Gurihiru have updated to the modern age. Superman is an immigrant, by the way, and an orphan. Oh, and he’s an alien. So, yeah, the big blue schoolboy has more in common with the disillusioned and …

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