List of Asian-American writers

This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of Asian American literature.

A–D

 * Ai
 * Shaila Abdullah
 * Aria Aber
 * George Abraham
 * Jessica Abughattas
 * Dilruba Ahmed, poet
 * Maya Ajmera
 * Meena Alexander
 * Agha Shahid Ali
 * Kazim Ali
 * Noel Alumit
 * Mia Alvar
 * Hala Alyan
 * Ryka Aoki
 * Fatimah Asghar
 * Aziz Ansari
 * Gina Apostol
 * Gaiutra Bahadur
 * Shauna Singh Baldwin
 * Peter Bacho, American Book Award winner for the novel Cebu
 * Ravi Batra
 * Cathy Bao Bean (包圭漪)
 * Susham Bedi
 * Bette Bao Lord (包柏漪)
 * Rick Barot
 * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (白萱华), poet
 * Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
 * Sujata Bhatt
 * Jaswinder Bolina
 * Jenny Boully
 * Carlos Bulosan
 * Regie Cabico
 * Lan Cao
 * Celso Al Carunungan
 * Linda Ty Casper
 * Gilbert Luis R. Centina III
 * Steph Cha
 * Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
 * Jeffery Paul Chan (陈耀光)
 * Rajiv Chandrasekaran
 * Jay Chandrasekhar, screenwriter
 * Diana Chang (張粲芳), novelist
 * Eileen Chang (张爱玲)
 * Iris Chang (張純如)
 * Jennifer Chang
 * K-Ming Chang
 * Lan Samantha Chang
 * Leonard Chang
 * Tina Chang
 * Lisa Changadveja
 * Bonnie Chau
 * Maneet Chauhan
 * Daniyal Mueenuddin, author
 * Cathy Linh Che
 * Alexander Chee
 * Anelise Chen
 * Justina Chen
 * Su Hua Ling Chen (凌叔华)
 * Nien Cheng (郑念)
 * Anna Chennault (陈香梅)
 * King-Kok Cheung
 * Cheng Sait Chia
 * Fay Chiang
 * Monlin Chiang (蒋梦麟)
 * Ted Chiang, Hugo and Nebula Award winner
 * Frank Chin (趙健秀)
 * Justin Chin
 * Marilyn Chin (陈美玲)
 * Mei Chin
 * Staceyann Chin
 * Frank Ching
 * Kah Kyung Cho, philosopher
 * Khendum Choden
 * Don Mee Choi
 * Susan Choi
 * Roshani Chokshi
 * Deepak Chopra
 * Louis Chu (雷霆超), author of Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961)
 * Seo-Young Chu (주서영), author of "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe" and "I, Discomfort Woman"
 * Wesley Chu (朱恆昱), science fiction writer
 * Frances Chung
 * Philip W. Chung, playwright
 * Peter Ho Davies
 * Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
 * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 * Dinesh D'Souza, conservative journalist
 * Tony D'Souza
 * Bei Dao
 * Oliver de la Paz
 * Margaret Dilloway, author of How To Be An American Housewife (2010)
 * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 * Do Nguyen Mai, poet

E–J

 * Fan Wu (吴帆)
 * Nancy Yi Fan (范禕)
 * Sui Sin Far (水仙花), a.k.a. Edith Maude Eaton
 * Ben Fee (张恨棠/木云)
 * Jamie Ford
 * Eugie Foster, Nebula Award winner
 * Sesshu Foster
 * Francis Fukuyama
 * M. Evelina Galang
 * Sarah Gambito
 * V.V. Ganeshananthan
 * Anu Garg
 * Atul Gawande
 * Tess Gerritsen
 * Alex Gilvarry
 * Anchee Min
 * Zulfikar Ghose
 * Khalil Gibran
 * Eugene Gloria
 * Prince Gomolvilas
 * Philip Kan Gotanda
 * Vince Gotera
 * Amitav Ghosh
 * Kovid Gupta
 * Ganggang Hu Guidice (胡剛剛)
 * Han Suyin (韩素音)
 * Jessica Hagedorn
 * Kimiko Hahn
 * Sarah Haider
 * Usha Haley
 * Mohsin Hamid
 * Jenny Han
 * Asma Gull Hasan
 * Alamgir Hashmi
 * S. I. Hayakawa
 * Le Ly Hayslip
 * Joseph Heco
 * Tess Uriza Holthe
 * Cathy Park Hong
 * Euny Hong, author
 * Garrett Hongo
 * Bill Hosokawa
 * Khaled Hosseini
 * Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
 * TC Huo
 * Eddie Huang
 * David Henry Hwang (黃哲倫), playwright
 * Lawson Fusao Inada
 * Daniel K. Inouye
 * Pico Iyer
 * Tania James
 * Gish Jen
 * Ha Jin (哈金)

K–L

 * Cynthia Kadohata
 * Michiko Kakutani
 * Mindy Kaling
 * Jay Caspian Kang, journalist, novelist
 * Michael Kang
 * Minsoo Kang, historian and writer
 * Younghill Kang, novelist
 * Bhanu Kapil
 * Sheba Karim
 * Hiroshi Kashiwagi, poet, playwright, novelist
 * Soji Kashiwagi, playwright
 * Siddharth Katragadda
 * Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman (1997) and Fox Girl (2002)
 * Porochista Khakpour
 * Uzma Aslam Khan
 * Parag Khanna
 * Crystal Hana Kim
 * Elaine H. Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
 * Jaegwon Kim, philosopher
 * Myung Mi Kim
 * Patti Kim
 * Richard E. Kim, novelist
 * Suki Kim, novelist
 * Ronyoung Kim
 * Maxine Hong Kingston, novelist
 * Katie Kitamura
 * Bharti Kirchner
 * Alexandra Kleeman
 * Lisa Ko
 * Dorinne K. Kondo
 * Gowri Koneswaran
 * R.F. Kuang
 * Helena Kuo
 * Kevin Kwan, author
 * Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation (2010)
 * Dan Kwong
 * Jhumpa Lahiri
 * Him Mark Lai
 * Andrew Lam
 * Le Thi Diem Thuy
 * Ang Lee
 * Chang-Rae Lee
 * Chin Yang Lee (黎錦揚)
 * Don Lee
 * Ed Bok Lee
 * Gus Lee (李健孫)
 * Helie Lee
 * Karen An-hwei Lee
 * Krys Lee
 * Li-Young Lee
 * Stacey Lee
 * Joseph O. Legaspi
 * Russell Leong
 * Yiyun Li
 * Sandra Lim
 * Shirley Geok-lin Lim
 * Adet and Anor Lin
 * Ed Lin
 * Grace Lin
 * Tan Lin
 * Tao Lin
 * Lin Tai-yi
 * R. Zamora Linmark
 * Linh Dinh
 * Eric Liu
 * Ken Liu (刘宇昆), Hugo and Nebula Award winner
 * Marjorie Liu
 * Timothy Liu
 * Malinda Lo
 * Teresa Lo, novelist and screenwriter
 * Vyvyane Loh
 * Mimi Lok
 * Bette Bao Lord
 * Marie Lu
 * David Wong Louie

M–S

 * Ling Ma
 * Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲)
 * Sezan Mahmud
 * Michelle Malkin, conservative newspaper columnist
 * Sally Wen Mao
 * Maliha Masood
 * Sujata Massey
 * Kristina McMorris
 * Mong-Lan
 * Tulika Mehrotra
 * Hasan Minhaj
 * Mary Anne Mohanraj
 * Toshio Mori
 * Mai Neng Moua
 * Bharati Mukherjee
 * David Mura
 * Milton Murayama
 * Sabina Murray
 * An Na, novelist
 * Ken Narasaki, playwright
 * Sunil Nayar, television writer
 * Aimee Nezhukumatathil
 * Celeste Ng
 * Fae Myenne Ng
 * Bich Minh Nguyen, novelist
 * Kien Nguyen
 * Qui Nguyen
 * Nguyen Qui Duc
 * Viet Thanh Nguyen
 * Thuc Doan Nguyen
 * Yone Noguchi
 * Sigrid Nunez
 * John Okada
 * Gary Okihiro
 * Daniel Okimoto
 * Miné Okubo
 * Matthew Olzmann
 * Ruth Ozeki
 * Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese Muslim writer
 * Gary Pak, author of Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2004) and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories (2005)
 * Greg Pak
 * Ty Pak, author of Guilt Payment (1983) and Moonbay: Short Stories (1999)
 * Linda Sue Park, novelist
 * Therese Park
 * Yongsoo Park, author of Boy Genius (2002), Las Cucarachas (2004), The Art of Eating Bitter: A Hausfrau Dad's Journey With Kids (2018), and Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens (2020)
 * Kamran Pasha
 * Craig Santos Perez
 * Andrew X. Pham
 * Aimee Phan
 * Bao Phi
 * Michelle Naka Pierce
 * Jon Pineda
 * Ramesh Ponnuru
 * Imad Rahman
 * Aneesh Raman
 * A.K. Ramanujan
 * Anantanand Rambachan, religious writer
 * Bino Realuyo
 * Rishi Reddi
 * Srikanth Reddy
 * Paisley Rekdal
 * Nina Revoyr
 * Barbara Jane Reyes
 * Bruce Reyes-Chow
 * Margaret Rhee
 * Lee Ann Roripaugh
 * Patrick Rosal
 * Shawna Yang Ryan
 * Edward Said
 * Albert Saijo
 * Yumi Sakugawa
 * Bienvenido Santos
 * Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
 * Allen Say
 * Lisa See, novelist
 * Vijay Seshadri
 * Vikram Seth
 * Simran Sethi, journalist and author of Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love (2015)
 * T. K. Seung, philosopher
 * Purvi Shah, poet
 * Naren Shankar, screenwriter
 * Prageeta Sharma
 * Brenda Shaughnessy
 * Sun Yung Shin, poet
 * Bapsi Sidhwa
 * SJ Sindu, novelist
 * Monica Sone, autobiographer
 * Cathy Song
 * Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
 * Indu Sundaresan, historical fiction author
 * Sui Sin Far
 * Sokunthary Svay
 * Arthur Sze
 * Mai-Mai Sze

T–Z

 * Eileen Tabios
 * Ronald Takaki, UC Berkeley history professor
 * Grace Talusan
 * Amy Tan, novelist
 * Lucy Tan, novelist
 * Ronald Tanaka
 * Lysley Tenorio
 * Timothy Tau
 * Madeleine Thien
 * Bhagat Singh Thind, author
 * Sherry Thomas, novelist
 * Tim Toyama, playwright
 * Barbara Tran
 * Truong Tran
 * Vu Tran
 * Monique Truong
 * Hsi Tseng Tsiang (a.k.a. H.T. Tsiang)
 * Gail Tsukiyama
 * Yoshiko Uchida
 * Thrity Umrigar
 * Loung Ung
 * Abraham Verghese
 * Jose Garcia Villa
 * Padma Viswanathan
 * Saymoukda Vongsay
 * Ocean Vuong
 * Gemini Wahhaj
 * Raees Warsi
 * Onoto Watanna, a.k.a. Winnifred Eaton
 * Qian Julie Wang
 * Weike Wang
 * Yun Wang
 * Michi Weglyn
 * Jade Snow Wong
 * Jane Wong
 * Nellie Wong
 * Raymond K. Wong
 * Shawn Wong
 * Merle Woo
 * Sung J. Woo
 * Bryan Thao Worra
 * Fan Wu (吴帆)
 * William F. Wu
 * Mitsuye Yamada
 * Hisaye Yamamoto
 * Lois-Ann Yamanaka
 * Karen Tei Yamashita
 * Wakako Yamauchi
 * Gene Luen Yang (楊謹倫)
 * Jeff Yang
 * Kao Kalia Yang
 * Yanyi
 * John Yau
 * Lisa Yee
 * Paul Yoon
 * Monica Youn
 * C. Dale Young
 * Charles Yu, novelist
 * Lizzie Yu Der Ling
 * Laurence Yep
 * Connie Young Yu, writer and historian
 * Judy Yung
 * Fareed Zakaria, political analyst author
 * C. Pam Zhang
 * Jenny Zhang
 * Jenny Tinghui Zhang
 * Kat Zhang
 * Helen Zia (謝漢蘭)