ALA 2010 Annual Conference Program and Exhibit Directory

fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood
Foundation, the La Napoule Foundation, Yaddo,
and the Mac-Dowell Colony. She has taught
creative writing at Boston University and
Middlebury College and is currently visiting
writer-in-residence at Skidmore College.
(photo credit: Sigrid Estrada)
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Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation (Penguin). Jean
Kwok was born in Hong Kong. She immigrated with
her family to Brooklyn when she was 5 and worked
in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her
childhood. She won early admission to Harvard,
where she graduated with honors before going on
to earn an MFA in fiction at Columbia. She has
worked as an English teacher, a Dutch-English
translator, a professional ballroom dancer, a reader
for the blind, a housekeeper, a dishwasher, and a
computer graphics specialist. Her work has been
published in Storymagazine, Prairie Schooner,and
the NuyorAsian Anthology.