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This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of [[Asian American literature]].

==A–D==
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* [[Ai (poet)|Ai]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Shaila Abdullah]]
* [[Aria Aber]]
* [[George Abraham (poet)|George Abraham]]
* [[Jessica Abughattas]]
* [[Dilruba Ahmed]], poet
* [[Maya Ajmera]]
* [[Karl Ichiro Akiya]]
* [[Meena Alexander]]
* [[Agha Shahid Ali]]
* [[Kazim Ali]]
* [[Noel Alumit]]
* [[Mia Alvar]]
* [[Hala Alyan]]
* [[Ryka Aoki]]
* [[Fatimah Asghar]]
* [[Aziz Ansari]]
* [[Gina Apostol]]
* [[Gaiutra Bahadur]]
* [[Shauna Singh Baldwin]]
* [[Peter Bacho]], [[American Book Award]] winner for the novel ''[[Cebu (novel)|Cebu]]''
* [[Ravi Batra]]
* [[Cathy Bao Bean]] (包圭漪) 
* [[Susham Bedi]]
* [[Tamiko Beyer]]
* [[Bette Bao Lord]] (包柏漪)
* [[Rick Barot]]
* [[Mei-mei Berssenbrugge]] (白萱华), poet <ref name=Ling>listed in Amy Ling's bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in '''Redefining American Literary History''', A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990.</ref>
* [[Cecilia Manguerra Brainard]]
* [[Sujata Bhatt]]
* [[Jean Shinoda Bolen]]
* [[Jaswinder Bolina]]
* [[Jenny Boully]]
* [[Akemi Dawn Bowman]]
* [[Rowan Hisayo Buchanan]]
* [[Carlos Bulosan]]
* [[Regie Cabico]]
* [[Lan Cao]]
* [[Celso Al. Carunungan|Celso Al Carunungan]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Linda Ty Casper]]
* [[Gilbert Luis R. Centina III]]
* [[Steph Cha]]
* [[Theresa Hak Kyung Cha]]
* [[Jeffery Paul Chan]] (陈耀光)
* [[Rajiv Chandrasekaran]]
* [[Jay Chandrasekhar]], screenwriter
* [[Diana Chang]] (張粲芳), novelist
* [[Eileen Chang]] (张爱玲)
* [[Iris Chang]] (張純如)
* [[Jennifer Chang]]
* [[K-Ming Chang]]
* [[Lan Samantha Chang]]
* [[Leonard Chang]]
* [[Tina Chang]]
* [[Lisa Changadveja]]
* [[Bonnie Chau]]
* [[Maneet Chauhan]]
* [[Daniyal Mueenuddin]], author
* [[Cathy Linh Che]]
* [[Alexander Chee]]
* [[Traci Chee]]
* [[Anelise Chen]]
* [[Justina Chen]]
* [[Ling Shuhua|Su Hua Ling Chen]] (凌叔华)<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Nien Cheng]] (郑念)<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Anna Chennault]] (陈香梅)<ref name=Ling/>
* [[King-Kok Cheung]]
* [[Cheng Sait Chia]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Fay Chiang]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Jiang Menglin|Monlin Chiang]] (蒋梦麟)<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Ted Chiang]], Hugo and Nebula Award winner 
* [[Frank Chin]] (趙健秀)
* [[Justin Chin]]
* [[Marilyn Chin]] (陈美玲)
* [[Mei Chin]]
* [[Staceyann Chin]]
* [[Frank Ching]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Kah Kyung Cho]], philosopher
* [[Khendum Choden]]
* [[Don Mee Choi]]
* [[Susan Choi]]
* [[Roshani Chokshi]]
* [[Deepak Chopra]]
* [[Louis Chu]] (雷霆超), author of ''[[Eat a Bowl of Tea (novel)|Eat a Bowl of Tea]]'' (1961)
* [[Seo-Young Chu]] (주서영), author of "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" and "I, Discomfort Woman"
* [[Wesley Chu]] (朱恆昱), science fiction writer
* [[Frank Chuman]]
* [[Frances Chung (poet)|Frances Chung]]
* [[Philip W. Chung]], playwright
* [[Peter Ho Davies]]
* [[Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla]]
* [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]]
* [[Dinesh D'Souza]], conservative journalist
* [[Tony D'Souza]]
* [[Bei Dao]]
* [[Sylvia Day]]
* [[Violet Kazue de Cristoforo]]
* [[Oliver de la Paz]]
* [[Margaret Dilloway]], author of ''[[How To Be An American Housewife]]'' (2010)
* [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]]
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==E–J==
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* [[Fan Wu]] (吴帆) 
* [[Nancy Yi Fan]] (范禕)
* [[Sui Sin Far]] (水仙花), a.k.a. [[Edith Maude Eaton]]
* [[Ben Fee]] (张恨棠/木云)
* Eilis Flynn
* [[Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn]]
* [[Jamie Ford]]
* [[Eugie Foster]], Nebula Award winner
* [[Sesshu Foster]]
* [[Gyo Fujikawa]]
* [[Jun Fujita]]
* [[Michiyo Fukaya]]
* [[Francis Fukuyama]]
* [[Dale Furutani]]
* [[M. Evelina Galang]]
* [[Sarah Gambito]]
* [[V.V. Ganeshananthan]]
* [[Anu Garg]]
* [[Atul Gawande]]
* [[Tess Gerritsen]]
* [[Alex Gilvarry]]
* [[Anchee Min]]
* [[Zulfikar Ghose]]
* [[Khalil Gibran]]
* [[Eugene Gloria]]
* [[Prince Gomolvilas]]
* [[Philip Kan Gotanda]]
* [[Vince Gotera]]
* [[Amitav Ghosh]]
* [[Karl Taro Greenfeld]]
* [[Mary Matsuda Gruenewald]]
* [[Kovid Gupta]]
* [[Ganggang Hu Guidice]] ([[:zh:胡剛剛|胡剛剛]])
* [[Han Suyin]] (韩素音)
* [[Jessica Hagedorn]]
* [[Kimiko Hahn]]
* [[Sarah Haider]]
* [[Usha Haley]]
* [[Darrell Hamamoto]]
* [[Sheila Hamanaka]]
* [[Mohsin Hamid]]
* [[Jenny Han]]
* [[Mikiso Hane]]
* [[Sadakichi Hartmann]]
* [[Asma Gull Hasan]]
* [[Alamgir Hashmi]]
* [[S. I. Hayakawa]]
* [[Le Ly Hayslip]]
* [[Joseph Heco]]
* [[Lee Herrick]]
* [[Naomi Hirahara]]
* [[Lane Ryo Hirabayashi]]
* [[William Hohri]]
* [[Tess Uriza Holthe]]
* [[Cathy Park Hong]]
* [[Euny Hong]], author
* [[Garrett Hongo]]
* [[Bill Hosokawa]]
* [[Khaled Hosseini]]
* [[Velina Hasu Houston]]
* [[Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[TC Huo]]
* [[Eddie Huang]]
* [[David Henry Hwang]] (黃哲倫), playwright
* [[Joe Ide]]
* [[Naomi Iizuka]]
* [[Lawson Fusao Inada]]
* [[Daniel K. Inouye]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Ayako Ishigaki]]
* [[Shizue Iwatsuki]]
* [[Pico Iyer]]
* [[Tania James]]
* [[Gish Jen]]
* [[Ha Jin]] (哈金)
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==K–L==
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* [[Cynthia Kadohata]]
* [[Julie Kagawa]]
* [[Michiko Kakutani]]
* [[Mindy Kaling]]
* [[Jay Caspian Kang]], journalist, novelist
* [[Michael Kang (director)|Michael Kang]]
* [[Minsoo Kang (historian and writer)|Minsoo Kang]], historian and writer
* [[Younghill Kang]], novelist
* [[Bhanu Kapil]]
* [[Sheba Karim]]
* [[Hiroshi Kashiwagi]], poet, playwright, novelist
* [[Soji Kashiwagi]], playwright
* [[Siddharth Katragadda]]
* [[Alma Katsu]]
* [[Sarah Kay (poet)|Sarah Kay]]
* [[Phil Kaye]]
* [[Nora Okja Keller]], author of ''Comfort Woman'' (1997) and ''Fox Girl'' (2002)
* [[Porochista Khakpour]]
* [[Uzma Aslam Khan]]
* [[Parag Khanna]]
* [[Crystal Hana Kim]]
* [[Elaine H. Kim]], author of ''Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context''
* [[Jaegwon Kim]], philosopher
* [[Myung Mi Kim]]
* [[Patti Kim (writer)|Patti Kim]]
* [[Richard E. Kim]], novelist
* [[Suki Kim]], novelist
* [[Ronyoung Kim]]
* [[Maxine Hong Kingston]], novelist
* [[Katie Kitamura]]
* [[Bharti Kirchner]]
* [[Alexandra Kleeman]]
* [[Lisa Ko]]
* [[Kyo Koike]]
* [[Dorinne K. Kondo]]
*[[Gowri Koneswaran]]
* [[R.F. Kuang]]
* [[Sarah Kuhn]]
* [[Helena Kuo]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Kevin Kwan]], author
* [[Jean Kwok]], author of ''Girl in Translation'' (2010)
* [[Dan Kwong]]
* [[Jhumpa Lahiri]]
* [[Him Mark Lai]]
* [[Andrew Lam]]
* [[Le Thi Diem Thuy]]
* [[Ang Lee]]
* [[Chang-Rae Lee]]
* [[C.Y. Lee (author)|Chin Yang Lee]] (黎錦揚)
* [[Don Lee (author)|Don Lee]] 
* [[Ed Bok Lee]]
* [[Gus Lee]] (李健孫)
* [[Helie Lee]]
* [[Karen An-hwei Lee]]
* [[Krys Lee]]
* [[Li-Young Lee]]
* [[Stacey Lee]]
* [[Joseph O. Legaspi]]
* [[Russell Leong]]
* [[Yiyun Li]]
* [[Eugene Lim (novelist)|Eugene Lim]], author of ''Fog & Car'' (2008, 2024), ''The Strangers'' (2013), ''Dear Cyborgs'' (2017), and ''Search History'' (2021), recipient of the [[Dos Passos Prize]]
* [[Sandra Lim]]
* [[Shirley Geok-lin Lim]]
* [[Adet Lin|Adet]] and [[Anor Lin]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Ed Lin]]
* [[Grace Lin]]
* [[Tan Lin]]
* [[Tao Lin]]
* [[Lin Tai-yi]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[R. Zamora Linmark]]
* [[Linh Dinh]]
* [[Eric Liu]]
* [[Ken Liu]] (刘宇昆), Hugo and Nebula Award winner
* [[Marjorie Liu]]
* [[Timothy Liu]]
* [[Malinda Lo]]
* [[Teresa Lo]], novelist and screenwriter
* [[Vyvyane Loh]]
* [[Mimi Lok]]
* [[Bette Bao Lord]]
* [[Marie Lu]]
* [[David Wong Louie]]
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==M–S==
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* [[Ling Ma]]
* [[Adeline Yen Mah]] (馬嚴君玲)
* [[Sezan Mahmud]]
* [[Michelle Malkin]], conservative newspaper columnist
* [[Sally Wen Mao]]
* [[Maliha Masood]]
* [[Sujata Massey]]
* [[Kristina McMorris]]
* [[Tulika Mehrotra]]
* [[Hasan Minhaj]]
* [[Janice Mirikitani]]
* [[Marie Mutsuki Mockett]]
* [[Mary Anne Mohanraj]]
* [[Toshio Mori]]
* [[Mong-Lan]]
* [[Toshio Mori]]
* [[Mai Neng Moua]]
* [[Bharati Mukherjee]]
* [[David Mura]]
* [[Milton Murayama]]
* [[Sabina Murray]]
* [[An Na]], novelist
* [[Shōson Nagahara]]
* [[Ken Narasaki]], playwright
* [[Sunil Nayar]], television writer
* [[Aimee Nezhukumatathil]]
* [[Celeste Ng]]
* [[Fae Myenne Ng]]
* [[Bich Minh Nguyen]], novelist
* [[Kien Nguyen]]
* [[Qui Nguyen]]
* [[Nguyen Qui Duc]]
* [[Viet Thanh Nguyen]]
* [[Thuc Doan Nguyen]]
* [[Barbara Noda]]
* [[Yone Noguchi]]
* [[Sigrid Nunez]]
* [[John Okada]]
* [[Gary Okihiro]]
* [[Daniel Okimoto]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Dwight Okita]]
* [[Miné Okubo]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Matthew Olzmann]]
* [[Julie Otsuka]]
* [[Milton K. Ozaki]]
* [[Ruth Ozeki]]
* [[Pai Hsien-yung]], Chinese Muslim writer
* [[Gary Pak]], author of ''Children of a Fireland: A Novel'' (2004) and ''Language of the Geckos and Other Stories'' (2005)
* [[Greg Pak]]
* Ty Pak, author of ''A Korean Decameron: Tales of the Yi Dynasty'' (1961), ''Guilt Payment'' (1983), ''Cry Korea Cry'' (1999), ''Moonbay: Short Stories'' (1999), ''Dear, Daughter'' (2017) and ''Moonbay: Short Stories'' (1999)
* [[Linda Sue Park]], novelist
* [[Therese Park]]
* [[Yongsoo Park]], author of ''Boy Genius'' (2002), ''Las Cucarachas'' (2004), ''The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey With Kids'' (2018), and ''Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens'' (2020)
* [[Kamran Pasha]]
* [[Craig Santos Perez]]
* [[Andrew X. Pham]]
* [[Aimee Phan]]
* [[Bao Phi]]
* [[Michelle Naka Pierce]]
* [[Jon Pineda]]
* [[Ramesh Ponnuru]]
* [[Imad Rahman]]
* [[Aneesh Raman]]
* [[A.K. Ramanujan]]
* [[Anantanand Rambachan]], religious writer
* [[Bino Realuyo]]
* [[Rishi Reddi]]
* [[Srikanth Reddy]]
* [[Paisley Rekdal]]
* [[Nina Revoyr]]
* [[Barbara Jane Reyes]]
* [[Bruce Reyes-Chow]]
* [[Margaret Rhee]]
* [[Lee Ann Roripaugh]]
* [[Patrick Rosal]]
* [[Shawna Yang Ryan]]
* [[Edward Said]]
* [[Albert Saijo]]<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=1208725|title=Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of an Urban Pastoral|date=Winter 1998|journal=[[Contemporary Literature (journal)|Contemporary Literature]]|volume=39|issue=4|page=541|first=Timothy C.|last=Gray|publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]]|location=Madison, Wisconsin|doi=10.2307/1208725 |issn=0010-7484}}</ref>
* [[Henry Sakaida]]
* [[Yumi Sakugawa]]
* [[Bienvenido Santos]]
* [[Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo]]
* [[Kiyo Sato]]
* [[Allen Say]]
* [[Lisa See]], novelist
* [[Sunny Seki]]
* [[Vijay Seshadri]]
* [[Vikram Seth]]
* [[T. K. Seung]], philosopher
* [[Purvi Shah]], poet
* [[Naren Shankar]], screenwriter 
* [[Prageeta Sharma]]
* [[Brenda Shaughnessy]]
* [[Julie Shigekuni]]
* [[Brandon Shimoda]], poet
* [[Sun Yung Shin]], poet
* [[Bapsi Sidhwa]]
* [[SJ Sindu]], novelist
* [[Keiho Soga]], poet
* [[Monica Sone]], autobiographer
* [[Cathy Song]]
* [[Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Indu Sundaresan]], historical fiction author
* [[Sui Sin Far]]
* [[Toyo Suyemoto]]
* [[Sokunthary Svay]]
* [[Arthur Sze]]
* [[Mai-Mai Sze]]<ref name=Ling/>
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==T–Z==
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* [[Eileen Tabios]]
* [[Ronald Takaki]], UC Berkeley history professor
* [[Grace Talusan]]
* [[Amy Tan]], novelist
* [[Lucy Tan]], novelist
* [[Karin Tanabe]]
* [[Ronald Phillip Tanaka|Ronald Tanaka]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Yuko Taniguchi]]
* [[Lysley Tenorio]]
* [[Madeleine Thien]]
* [[Bhagat Singh Thind]], author
* [[Sherry Thomas]], novelist
* [[Maggie Tokuda-Hall]]
* [[Teiko Tomita]], poet
* [[Tim Toyama]], playwright
* [[Barbara Tran]]
* [[Truong Tran]]
* [[Vu Tran]]
* [[Monique Truong]]
* [[Hsi Tseng Tsiang]] (a.k.a. H.T. Tsiang)
* [[Gail Tsukiyama]]
* [[Yoshiko Uchida]]
* [[Thrity Umrigar]]
* [[Loung Ung]]
* [[Amy Uyematsu]]
* [[Abraham Verghese]]
* [[Jose Garcia Villa]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Padma Viswanathan]]
* [[Saymoukda Vongsay]]
* [[Ocean Vuong]]
* [[Raees Warsi]]
* [[Winnifred Eaton (writer)|Onoto Watanna]], a.k.a. [[Winnifred Eaton (writer)|Winnifred Eaton]]
* [[Qian Julie Wang]]
* [[Weike Wang]]
* [[Yun Wang]]
* [[Michi Weglyn]]
* [[Jade Snow Wong]]
* [[Jane Wong]]
* [[Nellie Wong]]
* [[Shawn Wong]]
* [[Merle Woo]]
* [[Sung J. Woo]]
* [[Bryan Thao Worra]]
* [[Fan Wu]] (吴帆)
* [[Julie Wu]]
* [[William F. Wu]]
* [[Mitsuye Yamada]]
* [[Hisaye Yamamoto]]
* [[Lois-Ann Yamanaka]]
* [[Iris Yamashita]]
* [[Karen Tei Yamashita]]
* [[Wakako Yamauchi]]
* [[Hanya Yanagihara]]
* [[Gene Luen Yang]] (楊謹倫)
* [[Jeff Yang]]
* [[Kao Kalia Yang]]
* [[Yanyi]]
* [[Taro Yashima]]
* [[John Yau]]<ref name=Ling/>
* [[Lisa Yee]]
* [[Paul Yoon]]
* [[Monica Youn]]
* [[C. Dale Young]]
* [[Charles Yu]], novelist
* [[Princess Der Ling|Lizzie Yu Der Ling]]
* [[Laurence Yep]]
* [[Paula Yoo]]
* [[Connie Young Yu]], writer and historian
* [[Judy Yung]]
* [[Fareed Zakaria]], political analyst author
* [[C. Pam Zhang]]
* [[Jenny Zhang (writer)|Jenny Zhang]]
* [[Jenny Tinghui Zhang]]
* [[Kat Zhang]]
* [[Helen Zia]] (謝漢蘭){{div col end}}

== See also ==
{{Portal|Literature}}
*[[Asian American Literary Awards]]
*[[Asian American literature]]
*[[Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature]]
*[[Before Columbus Foundation]]
*[[Chinese American literature]]
*[[List of American writers of Korean descent]]
*[[List of Asian Canadian writers]]
*[[Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States]]

==External links==
*[http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/interviews/aap/index.html Interviews with young Asian American writers]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100513065310/http://koreanamericanliterature.com/ Korean American Literature]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:American writers of Asian descent| ]]
[[Category:Lists of American writers|Asian American writers]]
[[Category:Lists of American people of Asian descent|Writers Asian-American]]
[[Category:Asian-American literature| ]]