Presents: AAPI Voices in the Publishing World

Join us for a  Harvardwood Author Series event for AAPI Heritage month, with authors A.H. Kim AB '87, Yangsze Choo AB '95, and Angie Kim HLS '93 and founder of the first general-interest publisher dedicated exclusively to AAPI authors and stories, Stephanie Lim AB '03, to learn more about the ins and outs of finding your voice in storytelling and publishing.

Speakers:

A.H. Kim (AB '87)

A.H. Kim (Ann) is the author of two novels: A Good Family (2020) and Relative Strangers (4/2/2024). Ann was born in South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. as a young child. Ann was educated at Harvard College and Berkeley Law. Prior to becoming a novelist, Ann practiced corporate law for many years and served as chief of staff to the CEO and as head of investor relations at a Fortune 200 company. Ann is the proud mother of two sons, a long time cancer survivor, and community volunteer. After many years living in the Bay Area, Ann and her husband now call Ann Arbor home.

Yangsze Choo (AB '95)

Yangsze Choo (Harvard, AB Social Studies) is the New York Times bestselling author of THE GHOST BRIDE (now a Netflix Original series) and THE NIGHT TIGER, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, and a Big Jubilee Read selection for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. Her new book THE FOX WIFE is a Book of the Month Club pick and a Fresh Fiction pick for Oprah Daily. She lives in California with her family and loves to eat and read (often at the same time). The Fox Wife and all previous novels would not have been possible without large quantities of dark chocolate.

Stephanie Lim (AB '03)

Stephanie Lim is Co-Founder and CEO of Third State Books, which launched in 2023 as the first general-interest publisher dedicated exclusively to AAPI authors and stories. Before TSB, Stephanie spent over 15 years in digital marketing and operations, first as a strategist for advertising clients at Google, then leading e-commerce teams and managing multi-million-dollar advertising budgets for retail brands such as ModCloth, Bebe, and Serena Williams’s eponymous fashion label. Early in her career, she sifted through slush piles as an intern at Penguin Putnam and then screenplays as a development assistant for comedy producer Bob Simonds and actor/director Forest Whitaker, so working on TSB feels truly like coming full circle for her.

Stephanie brings an abiding love of literary classics, guilty-pleasure genre fiction, fanfic, and children’s books to her work at Third State Books. She will always be a SoCal girl at heart, but she’s making the best of the perpetually foggy weather in San Francisco with her husband, Garry, and their two sons.

Angie Kim  (HLS '93)

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award and was named one of the 100 best mysteries and thrillers of all time by Time. Happiness Falls, her second novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a GMA and Barnes & Noble book club pick, and was named the #1 novel of the year by Oprah Daily.