Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a second-generation Chinese American from California who now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawaii. She is a writer, speaker, educator, and activist specializing in Asian Pacific American and multicultural issues. She is a contributor for NewAmericaMedia.org, ChicagoistheWorld.org, PacificCitizen.org, InCultureParent.com, and HuffPostLive. She has published three chapbooks of prose poetry and has been included in several anthologies and art exhibitions. She will have a multimedia artwork with Jyoti Omi Chowdhury entitled "Dreams of the Diaspora" in a Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Indian American Heritage Project online and travelling art exhibition. Visit her website for more information. [Creative non-fiction]