Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to the New York Times and the author of American Chinatown, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her new book, Why We Swim, was published in April 2020; it was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Time magazine Must-Read Book of 2020, an NPR Best Book of 2020, and a Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe bestseller, and is currently being translated into five languages. Her first children's book, Sarah and the Big Wave, about the first woman to surf Northern California’s renowned Mavericks, will be published in May 2021. She lives, surfs, and swims in the Bay Area.