Biography & Contact

Causes I Support

• Self Help for the Elderly
  The Lyme Disease Association
  Half the Sky
  Pets Unlimited
  Squaw Valley Community of Writers

Agents

• Talks, lectures, appearances: Steven Barclay Agency
  Literary rights: Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency

Contact Agents

• http://www.barclayagency.com/tan.html
  Sandy@dijstraagency.com

Publishers

• Putnam
  Penguin
  Ballantine
  Ivy
  Aladdin Picture Books

Contact Publishers

• Penguin Group USA
  www.uspenguingroup.com

Influences

• The Holy Ghost of my father and the Chinese ghosts of my mother.
  
  The American Dream and the Chinese family's interpretation of that.
  
  Free books from the library every week and reading books that appeared on the banned book lists.
  
  Writing secret letters to my friends about running away to Haight-Ashbury and writing thank you letters as my mother dictated them to me in bad English.
  
  The early deaths of my older brother and father and my mother's belief that I would die next.
  
  An SAT score in the 400s for English and SAT score in the 700s in Spanish
  
  Listening to my mother and her friends gossip in Chinese. Understanding Chinese but not being able to speak it.
  
  Luck and an amazing amount of it.