Ryan Lee Wong is author of the forthcoming novel Which Side Are You On. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of a fifth-generation Chinese American father and a Korean immigrant mother, and lives in Brooklyn. Ryan organized the exhibitions Serve the People at Interference Archive and Roots at Chinese American Museum, both focused on the Asian American movements of the 1970s. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark and lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple.