Bonnie Tsui is an award-winning author known for her insightful explorations of culture, community, and the human experience. Her book American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Tsui is also the author of the bestselling Why We Swim, an NPR Best Book of the Year and a TIME magazine Must-Read Book, and the children's book Sarah and the Big Wave. Her forthcoming book, On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters, has already been named a most anticipated book of the year by NPR and Amazon. A longtime contributor to The New York Times and AFAR, Tsui is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.