Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and the author of American Chinatown, winner of the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her latest book, Why We Swim, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Time magazine and NPR Best Book of 2020, and a Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Science; it is currently being translated into nine languages. Her first children’s book, Sarah and the Big Wave, about the first woman to surf Northern California’s Mavericks, was published in 2021 and was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Her work has been recognized and supported by Harvard University, the National Press Foundation, and the Mesa Refuge. She is currently working on a book about muscle.