LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Chris Daley is the director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles and she teaches academic writing at the California Institute of Technology. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, FORTH Magazine, Angels Flight "¢ literary west, The Collagist, DUM DUM Zine, Cease, Cows, Front... Read More →

Yangsze Choo is a fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. Due to a childhood spent in various countries, she can eavesdrop (badly) in several languages. After graduating from Harvard University, she worked in various corporate jobs and had a briefcase before writing her first... Read More →

RABEAH GHAFFARI was born in Iran and lives in New York City. She is a writer and film editor whose fiction was included in Reflections on Islamic Art and whose documentary, The Troupe, featured Tony Kushner. Her most recent feature-length screenplay, The Inheritors, was commissioned... Read More →

Paula Saunders graduated from the Syracuse University Creative Writing program, where she studied with Tobias Wolff and Douglas Unger. It was during this time that she and her husband, the writer, George Saunders, met and married. After Syracuse, Paula was the recipient of the prestigious... Read More →

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," "Peony in Love," "Shanghai Girls," "Dreams of Joy," "China Dolls," and "The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane." Her newest book is "The Island of Sea Women." Ms. See was honored as National Woman of... Read More →