Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of six books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, all published by Coffee House Press. She received a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently the co-holder—with Bettina Aptheker—of the UC Presidential Chair for Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.