Curtis Chin

Chin is a cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, and has gone on to write for network television before transitioning to social-justice documentaries. Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more. He is the author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir

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