Author Ann Tashi Slater ’84 studied comparative literature at Princeton and completed her MFA in creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, AGNI, Granta en Español, and the Huffington Post, among many others. Her writing appears in Women in Clothes (Penguin) and American Dragons (HarperCollins), and her translation of fiction by Reinaldo Arenas was published in Old Rosa (Grove). Current projects include a novel based on her Tibetan family history, a memoir about a pilgrimage to her ancestral homeland, and multimedia events at NYC’s Rubin Museum related to her writing and Tibetan American identity. A longtime resident of Tokyo, she is a professor of comparative literature at Japan Women’s University. Visit her at www.anntashislater.com.