Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel (2010), finalist for the National Book Award, and the forthcoming Sansei & Sensibility (2020), all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.