Jessica Hagedorn (1949– )
Filipino American writer whose works include the poetry collection Pet Food &
Tropical Apparitions (1981) and the novels Dogeaters (1990), a National Book
Award recipient; The Gangsters of Love (1996); and Dream Jungle (2003). She is
the editor of Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American
Fiction (1993).
Kimiko Hahn (1955– )
Born in New York to a Japanese American mother who had been raised in Hawaii
and a German American father. Her poetry collections include We Stand Our
Ground (1988), with Gale Jackson and Susan Sherman; Air Pocket (1989); Earshot
(1992); The Unbearable Heart (1995); Volatile (1998); Mosquito and Ant (1999);
and The Artist’s Daughter (2002).
Laila Halaby (?– )
Born in Lebanon to a Jordanian father and American mother and grew up mostly
in Arizona. Her novels are West of the Jordan (2003) and Once in a Promised Land:
A Novel (2007).
Oscar Hijuelos (1951– )
Cuban American fiction writer whose Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989)
earned him the distinction of being the first Hispanic American to be awarded
the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other works are Our House in the Last World
(1983), The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien (1993), Mr. Ives’s Christmas
(1995), Empress of the Splendid Season (1999), and A Simple Habana Melody (2002).
Dark Dude (2008) is for young-adult readers.
Garrett Kaoru Hongo (1951– )
Japanese American poet born in Hawaii and raised in California. His works
include The Buddha Bandits down Highway 99 (1978), with Lawson Fusao Inada
and Alan Chong Lau; Yellow Light (1982); and The River of Heaven (1988). Vol-
cano (1995) is a memoir.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934– )
Japanese American writer who was imprisoned with her family in a Japanese
Relocation Camp during World War II, an experience she writes about in the
autobiographical Farewell to Manzanar (1973), coauthored with her husband, James
Houston. Her other works are Beyond Manzanar and Other Views of Asian-American
Womanhood (1985) and the novel The Legend of the Fire Horse Woman (2003).
David Henry Hwang (1957– )
Chinese American playwright best known for M. Butterfly (1988), for which he
was the first Asian American to be awarded the Tony Award for best play.
Lawson Fusao Inada (1938– )
Japanese American poet who coedited Aiiieeeee! (1974) and The Big Aiiieeeee!
(1991). He is also author of the poetry collections Before the War: Poems as They
Happened (1971); The Buddha Bandits down Highway 99 (1978), with Garrett