May-lee Chai is the author of Glamorous Asians (University of Indianapolis Press, 2004), My Lucky Face (NY: Soho, 1997), and coauthor with her father of a family memoir The Girl from Purple Mountain (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2001), which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is a former reporter for the Associated Press and has taught creative writing at the University of Colorado-Boulder and San Francisco State University. She received a Master's Degree in English-Creative Writing from the University of Colorado.