Eric K. Yamamoto is the Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his legal work and scholarship on civil procedure as well as national security, civil liberties, and social justice.

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Futaro Yamada is the pen name of Seiya Yamada. He was born in 1922 in Japan and graduated from the faculty of medicine at Tokyo University. He made his authorial debut in 1947 with the short story "The Incident at the Dharma Pass" and went on to write over a hundred novels and short stories. He died in 2001.

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Irvin D. Yalom is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. He is the author of many books, including Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, The Gift of Therapy, and When Nietzsche Wept.

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Boaz Yakin is an award-winning screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplay for Fresh and The Rookie, and he directed the feature film Remember the Titans.

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Don Yaeger is a former associate editor for Sports Illustrated.

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A multiple Carol and RITA Award nominee, Kathleen Y'Barbo is the bestselling author of more than eighty novels with almost two million copies in print in the U.S. and abroad. Visit her at kathleenybarbo.com.

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Meg Xuemei X is the USA Today bestselling author of several steamy paranormal and sci-fi romance series, including The Empress of Mysth, The First Witch, Shifter's One True Mate, and Dark Chemistry.

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Can Xue is the pseudonym of celebrated experimental writer Deng Xiaohua, born in 1953 in the city of Changsha. She is the author of Vertical Motion, Frontier, Barefoot Doctor, and Five Spice Street, among other books.

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Danny Xuan has been a Wing Chun practitioner for over forty years. He travels internationally to instruct and has been featured in documentaries on the art produced by studios such as Warner Bros. Danny writes an instructional column for Wing Chun Illustrated magazine.

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Kenny Xu is the president of the nonprofit organization Color Us United, the lead insider on the Harvard Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case, and a commentary writer for various publications. His work has propelled him to interviews with NPR and features in the New York Times Magazine.

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Born in Shanghai, Ruiyan Xu moved to the United States at the age of ten without speaking a word of English. She graduated from Brown University with honors in creative writing and currently works as an interactive producer at P.O.V., the independent documentary series on PBS.

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Qiu Xiaolong is a poet and the author of several novels featuring Inspector Chen, as well as Years of Red Dust, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2010. Born and raised in Shanghai, Qiu lives with his family in St. Louis, Missouri.

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