Darien Hsu Gee is a bestselling novelist with Penguin Random House and a recent Poetry Society Chapbook Fellow. Her craft book, Writing the Hawaii Memoir, won the Hawaii Book Publishers' Ka Palapala Pookela award. Darien has received a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant as well as a Vermont Studio Center fellowship. She lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and is second-generation Chinese American. Carla Crujido is a hapa writer of Filipino, Norwegian, Mexican, and German descent. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. A short story writer and essayist, Carla is originally from San Francisco, but now calls Portland home.
"""Insightful, memorable, thoughtful and thought provoking, Nonwhite and Woman offers an assemblage of unique and yet universal experiences with respect to being a woman of color within the context of a still white dominated culture."" --Midwest Book Review"