The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000.
Assistant Professor of English at National Taiwan University, Su-Ching Huang serves as Editor-in-chief of Chung Wai Literary Monthly, a Chinese-language scholarly journal based in Taiwan. She has taught at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, Rochester Institute of Technology, and University of Rochester. She has published essays on the Chinese American travel writer Chiang Yee and feminist theatre.
