Yong TakahashiPrize-winning writer Yong Takahashi is a first-generation Korean American. Growing up in Detroit with English as her second language, she worked hard to connect lessons of the New World to rules of the Old World. These struggles helped her develop inight into the human psyche and an eye for appreciating the diverse spectrum of humans around her. Yong lives with her husband in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More Read Less