Gene Luen Yang is the author of American Born Chinese, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, the Eisner Award and a finalist for the National Book Award.nbsp; He teaches high school in San Francisco, California.nbsp; Derek Kirk Kim is the author of Same Difference and Other Stories, the winner of the trifecta of comics awards – the Eisner, the Ignatz, and the Harvey.nbsp; He lives in Portland, Oregon.nbsp;