Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang is an American cartoonist and author who writes graphic novels, including American Born Chinese, a coming-of-age story about young Chinese Americans. He has also written comics based on Avatar: The Last Airbender and the two-part Boxers and Saints. Yang taught computer science at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland before joining the Hamline University faculty in 2012, and he lectures often at comic conventions, schools, and libraries. In 2016 he was named the Library of Congress Ambassador for Young People's Literature and received a MacArthur Fellowship.