Traci Chee

Traci Chee is a fourth-generation Japanese American author who grew up in California, studied literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz, and earned an MA from San Francisco State. Her Pitch Wars mentorship led to her bestselling debut, The Reader, first in the Sea of Ink and Gold trilogy. We Are Not Free, a National Book Award finalist, draws on interviews with her own relatives about their World War II incarceration.