Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Stay True: A Memoir, which received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. He teaches at Bard College and publishes a series of zines about music and life called Suspended in Time. He serves on the boards of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Critical Minded.