Isabelle Kim

Isabelle is the book designer for Pho for Life. Recently she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Graphic Design [...]

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Timothy Tau

Timothy Tau is an Award-Winning Writer and Filmmaker. His short story, “The Understudy” won Grand Prize in the 2011 Hyphen Asian American [...]

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Sonia SyGaco

Sonia B. SyGaco is a fiction writer and holds a master’s degree in creative writing at Silliman University in the Philippines. [...]

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Kaoru Shinmon

Kaoru Shinmon teaches all the Master’s way of being. The Master’s way is not to sell or state to be, it is by the effortlessness of allowing. [...]

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Michelle Krusiec

Michelle Krusiec is one of the most dynamic and versatile modern day actresses working today. A veteran of television and features, creator [...]

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Vi Pham

Vi was born in Boston, Massachusetts and now resides in Costa Mesa, California. She attended San Diego State University and received her degree [...]

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Ron Pastucha

In 2005, Artist Roman Pastucha severely burned his right hand, his “natural” hand. With will and determination, he painstakingly started training his [...]

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Esther K. Chae

Esther K. Chae is an award-winning actor/writer based in Los Angeles and New York. Her artistic work has been seen and heard in the US, Korea, [...]

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George Ding

George Ding was born in Beijing and moved to the lush, yuppie Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. at the age of four. He received a B.A. in Film [...]

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Julia Tran

Julia Tran was born in Vietnam, raised in California, and currently resides in Orange County. She graduated from UC Riverside with a Computer Science degree [...]

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Audrey Dolar Tejada

Audrey Dolar (A. D.) Tejada was born in the Philippines and raised in southwest Oklahoma. She majored in literature at Cornell University and studied [...]

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Xu-An Nguyen

Born and raised in Hong Kong then Saigon and Paris, Xu-An eventually moved to California to attend Pepperdine University where she graduated [...]

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Tam Lontok

Tam Lontok is a remediation specialist and writer. In 1999 and 2000, two of her short stories were published in Encantos [...]

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Steve Nguyen

Steve Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American director, producer, and writer. Since 2005, Nguyen has been involved with the production of over forty independent [...]

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Sandy Tseng

Sandy Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in New Jersey. She is author of Sediment, a collection of poetry published by Four Way Books [...]

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Kelly Banh

When asked what she would grow up to be, a four-year-old Kelly Banh insisted on becoming a “student.” Following those dreams from her hometown [...]

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Jenny Baranick

There is only one trophy in the world that bears the name Jenny Baranick: the 1983 Crescent Elementary School Read-a-thon trophy. Having discovered that [...]

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Wendy Toliver

Wendy Toliver lives in the Utah mountains with her husband, three sons, and other such wildlife. She’s authored several teen novels, non-fiction [...]

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Min Kang

Min K. Kang was born in Busan, South Korea, and was raised in Texas. For the past two years, she has worked with America Reads [...]

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Lac Su

Lac Su is the author of the award-winning memoir, I Love Yous Are for White People (Harper Perennial, 2009). He has written for, or been covered by [...]

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J.A. Pak

J.A. Pak is a writer and poet. Her work has been published in a variety of magazines. “What I Did For Pho” is part of Act of Creation & Other Stories, [...]

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Monica Tan

Monica Tan is a Beijing-based writer, originally from Sydney, Australia. Formerly she was an internet tabloid journalist but these days writes stories about [...]

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Mai Pham

Mai Pham is the chef and owner of Lemon Grass Restaurant in Sacramento, California, a nationally acclaimed restaurant featuring Vietnamese [...]

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Crystal Le

Crystal Le lives in the city of Tustin, California. She graduated with a Master of Art in Teaching science from UCI. Despite the fact that her philosophy [...]

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar, newly elected Chairman of the CT Young Writers Trust, is co-Director of the Creative Writing Program at Central Connecticut State [...]

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Peter Deltondo

Peter is the Creative Director & CEO of Stork Digital. After an honorable medical discharge from the United States Military Academy at West Point due to a [...]

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Mai Bui

Before serving as the editor in chief for the Thirteen Minutes magazine, Mai had written for a handful of publications. His passion to serve the community has [...]

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Trish Santos

I was born in Lucena City, Philippines on April 1, 1986. Not only am I the only girl out of three children, I am also the middle child. My family spoke Tagalog [...]

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Quyen Ngo

Quyen is the Managing Editor for Pho for Life. She grew up in Southern California after her family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam. Following studies [...]

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Wenli Jen

Wenli Jen, Ed.D. is a program director at a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, CA. She is also a college counselor, educational consultant and writer [...]

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Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Best described as “unboxable” – a multi-disciplinary artist for over the past 15 years, traci finds great passion in exploring the world through art and [...]

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Tina Tsai

Tinabot is a writer and educator. Her debut novel The Legend of Phoenix Mountain is a teenage American kung fu romance inspired by eastern [...]

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Neelam Chandra

Neelam Chandra is working as an officer in Indian Railways. More than hundred of her stories/poems have been published in various leading Indian as well as [...]

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Nathalie Medina

Nathalie Medina welcomes this opportunity to have her first narrative piece published. She explores her scope of the world and actively craves [...]

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Mina Kurata

Mina Kurata is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature and a minor [...]

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Kellie Peterson

Kellie grew up in a small town nestled on a narrow isthmus of land appropriately named Two Harbors on Catalina Island. The population never exceeded [...]

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Andrea Rademan

Andrea Rademan is the Vice President and Culinary Division Director of the International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association. Her [...]

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Farrah Walker

A literary nerd from the start, Farrah would get in trouble for sneaking Greek mythology books into her math classes to read for fun in elementary school, [...]

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Cindy Hwang

Cindy Hwang started her music career in the recording industry almost 15 years ago; she has produced and organized numerous performing arts and [...]

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Rosa Tran Bank e

Rosa Bank e was born on Wake Island and raised in Orange County after her parents migrated after the Fall of Saigon in 1975. She saw the development [...]

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Marlena Spieler

Marlena Spieler broadcasts and writes internationally on her favourite subject: food — cooking, eating and sharing it. Bon viveuer, wit, and humourist, her [...]

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Elgin Zulueta

Elgin Zulueta was born in Manila, Philippines but now lives in sunny Santa Monica, California with her best friend, a hamster, and a fish. As a child, “Elle” [...]

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Nancy Yoon

Nancy and her husband Thomas currently live in Vienna, Austria with their two year old furry baby, Boobsi, the dog wonder. She has been seen in many TV [...]

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Annie Kim Pham

Annie Kim Pham is currently an online channel host and resides in Orange County, California where she is a full-time student. In her spare time, she raises [...]

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Shelene Atanacio

At the heart of Filipina – Actress, Author, Producer, Community Activist, and Social Entrepreneur, Shelene Atanacio, is a true creative artist. Her philosophy of [...]

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Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat

Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat has over six years of extensive experience as a newspaper/magazine writer. She [...]

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Julie Zhan

Julie Zhan is an actor, dancer, aspiring filmmaker, and magna cum laude graduate of the University of California, San Diego. This jack-of-all-trades [...]

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Jim Swaniger

Jim is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He graduated from Pepperdine University (1996) with a Master’s degree in clinical psychology, after leaving [...]

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Anna Cho

Although Anna has no formal literary background, has never belonged to any book clubs or writing circles, she is an avid reader and has been writing for [...]

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James Glover

James Glover was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina. He attended the University of Tennessee where he earned a degree in Speech [...]

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Julie Gram

Julianna Gram lives in Irvine, California. During college she participated in teaching English abroad in China as well as earned a BA in Japanese by [...]

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Koji Sakai

Koji has lived all his life in the Pasadena area and hopes to spend the rest of his life there. He recently bought a home where he lives with his wife of four [...]

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Panney Wei

Panney Wei is an award-winning writer, TV-Radio host, life coach, and motivational speaker on achieving one’s potential, leadership, achieving one’s [...]

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Tina Phi

Tina lives in Huntington Beach, California and is a full time student hoping to get into dental school to become an oral surgeon one day. Growing up, Tina [...]

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Malissa Tem

Malissa Tem is a college student at the University of California, Irvine. She is pursing her love for writing and interests in the API community with Literary [...]

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Jennifer Field

Jennifer Field is a San Francisco Bay Area native, born and raised in San Jose, California. She graduated from prestigious Santa Clara University [...]

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Melanie Lawlor Cooper

Melanie Lawlor Cooper is a freelance writer, editor and blogger. Her work has appeared in print publications such as The Glow Project Magazine, [...]

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Debbie Hoang

Debbie was just three years old when she and her parents left a refugee camp in Hong Kong to seek a better life in Toronto, Canada. Like many of [...]

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Yuka Sano

Yuka is an international rising star embarking on an inspiring acting, music, and modeling career loves to travel visiting many countries around the [...]

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Anna Le

Anna Le graduated from The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising majoring in fashion design. During her studies at FIDM, she has worked [...]

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Mariam Lam

Mariam Lam is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural studies, and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, [...]

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Maiv Lig Lauj

MeLee Lor is a Hmong-American who studied at California State University, Sacramento where she received her MA in English, Creative Writing, a [...]

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