Leslie Bow is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of 'Partly Colored': Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (New York University Press, 2010) and Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature (Princeton University Press, 2001), as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. She is a contributor to Progressive magazine and the Progressive Media Project through which her op-ed columns appear in newspapers across the United States. She has edited Fiona Cheong's novel, The Scent of the Gods (University of Illinois Press, 2010) and is currently editing Asian American Feminisms (forthcoming, Routledge). She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.