Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Houston is the associate dean of Faculty Development and Recognition, director of the MFA program in dramatic writing, resident playwright, and a professor at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. A mixed-race Japanese American, she is the only American playwright to amass a body of work... Read More →

Fulbeck is the author of "Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids;" "Part Asian;" “100% Hapa;” and "Permanence: Tattoo Portraits,” as well as the director of a dozen short films and creator of the multimedia Hapa Project. Fulbeck is a professor of art at UC Santa Barbara and has... Read More →

Williams is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Ito Center at USC. He is the author of "The Other Side of Zen, Camp Dharma: Buddhism and the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II,” and editor ofseven books including “Hapa Japan” (Kaya Press), “Issei... Read More →