Ann Tashi Slater is a Tibetan American writer who recently finished her first memoir. Her essays, stories, and interviews have been published by The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Catapult, Tin House, AGNI, Tricycle, and others. She speaks and holds workshops in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, at The Rubin Museum of Art, the Asia Society, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford,and The American University of Paris. A longtime resident of Tokyo, she teaches literature at Japan Women's University.