King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa; editor of Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers, An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature, “Seventeen Syllables”, Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography; and co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.