A cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the nonprofit’s first executive director. He went on to write for network television before transitioning to social-justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in 16 countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appétit and the Boston Globe’s Emancipator. A graduate of the University of Michigan and a former visiting scholar at New York University, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more.

Books by Curtis Chin

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir

by Curtis Chin - Memoir, Nonfiction

EVERYTHING I LEARNED, I LEARNED IN A CHINESE RESTAURANT tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980s Detroit.