Bonnie Tsui is the author of American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods (Free Press), winner of the 2009 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009: 50 Notable Bay Area Books selection. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, she has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic Adventure and Mother Jones. She is the editor of A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise (Sierra Club Books), a collection of essays on the natural World.