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Asian American Biographies
 Sabrina Margartia Alcantara-Tan
Sabrina Margartia Alcantara-Tan is a queer Filipina mestiza. She
is editress of the zine Bamboo Girl (www.bamboogirl.com,
under the auspices of Pinay Power Productions), which is by/ for/
but not exclusive to young loud women of color; it deals with
issues of racism, sexism, and homophobia, much from the mixed-blood
Filipina point of view. Her work has been published in Dragon
Ladies: Asian Feminists Breathe Fire, that Takes Ovaries,
and maganda magazine and her video work has been screened
at the MIX Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. She studies Pananandata,
the Filipino Martial Art of Weapon Fighting, and her favorite
weapon is balisong. She is dedicated to what Filipinas, Asians,
and Asian mutt women face on a daily basis, and works constantly
to give those who stereotype her and other Asian women a very
had time. She is an alumni of New York University.
 Sawad
Brooks
Sawad Brooks is a cultural and media critic, artist, and award
winning designer working with public and information spaces. Sawad's
work has been exhibited internationally, including shows at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis; the Johannesburg Biennale and the Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. He is currently working with fellow
artist Warren Sack on "hELLO7734 : Translation Map" a new network
protocol art-research project which proposes a collaborative approach
to translation. With a generous grant from Creative Capital Foundation,
he is also developing a parasitic, animated architecture project.
He has taught at Yale University; Merz Akademie, Stuttgart; Parsons
School of Design, New York; and last year was a Visiting Assistant
Professor at Brown University's Department of Modern Culture and
Media. He is a member of bbc art + architecture, a finalist in
the World Trade Center Memorial Competition
 Regie
Cabico
Regie Cabico has appeared on two seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam
and won the 1993 Nuyorican Grand Slam. He took top prizes in the
1993, 1994 & 1997 National Poetry Slams. He is the recipient of
fellowships in Performance Art & Poetry from The New York Foundation
for the Arts. He's been featured on the 2003 Humana Theater Festival.
He is a 2004 New York company member of "Too Much Light Makes
The Baby Go Blind". His work appears in over 30 anthologies including
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Outlaw Bible
of American Poetry & Spoken Word Revolution. His latest solo work
"straight out" is directed by reg e gaines.
Tina Chang
Tina Chang's collection, Half-Lit Houses, has already
received positive reviews in Publisher's Weekly. Tina
Chang's poems address the problems of family and heritage, in
40-plus lyrics that praise and address a mythical father while
delving into the past: Hunan, China in the 1930's and 1940's.
These are passionate and accessible poems, simple in diction and
declaration, elegant in image and syntax. Of Half-Lit Houses,
Li-Young Lee has said, "Tina Chang's poems perform the ancient
tasks of remembrance, recovery, and praise. This work seeks to
account for a life in the context of the myths, cultural and familial,
that both nurture and threaten that very life and the voice that
might sing it into legend. This is a poetry of amazing lushness,
melancholy and affirmation."
 Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee's first novel, Edinburgh, won the Lambda,
the AAWW Lit Award, the Michener/Copernicus Prize and was one
of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of the Year. He is
a winner of the Whiting Award and the NEA literary fellowship.
His stories and essays are anthologized in Men On Men 2000,
The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, and
TakeOut. He teaches writing at Wesleyan University, and
lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Aric Chen
Aric Chen is a freelance architecture/design, decorative arts,
art, and fashion writer in New York. He is currently a contributing
editor for Surface, I.D., and Interior Design
magazines, US correspondent for Interni (Italy),
and was formerly a contributing editor for Dutch (Holland),
as well as a reporter for the Intelligencer column of New
York magazine. He has also contributed to: The New York
Times, Art & Auction, GQ, Paper,
Elle Décor, Azure, Dwell, ArtNews,
House & Garden, Art on Paper, Black Book,
Departures, Graphis, Jalouse, Metropolis,
MIXT(E) (France), Print and others. He guest-edited the
March/April 2003 issue of I.D. magazine and writes a
monthly art column on the widely-read fashion website hintmag.com
as well as a biweekly column for the recently-launched Architect's
Newspaper. He is currently writing a book on the history
of the Campbell's Soup Kids (Abrams) and is contributing to a
book on the work of designer Vladimir Kagan (Pointed Leaf). In
addition, he wrote an essay for the book American Dream: Houses
at Sagaponac (Rizzoli), and is now working on essays for
a contemporary drawing and photography exhibition catalog (ANP)
and a book on T-shirts (Abrams). In 2003, he was the consulting
design director for Sublime American Design, a store in New York's
Tribeca neighborhood exclusively selling the work of American
designers.
He is originally from Chicago, received a BA in architecture
and BA in cultural anthropology from the University of California
at Berkeley, and an MA in the history of decorative arts and design
offered jointly by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and
Parsons School of Design. He has interned at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt, The Art Institute of Chicago,
and Butterfields auction house. In addition, he has been a guest
speaker at Parsons, the Cooper-Hewitt, University of the Arts
(Philadelphia), Carnegie Mellon University, and Konstfack (Stockholm).
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