Jessica Hagedorn was schooled in the theater arts at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Her first novel, Dogeaters, was published in 1990 and is now in its twelfth printing. Hagedorn has edited Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction, which was published in 1993. Other books include Danger and Beauty, a collection of poetry and prose, and The Gangster of Love, a novel. Her other accomplishments include multimedia theater and performance pieces and collaborations on numerous video and film projects.

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