ARTIST:
Russell C. Leong believes in the power of words to free the future. During his 33-year tenure as an academic editor at UCLA, he edited the first books and journals on Asian Pacific media and film, Asian American sexualities, Asian Americans post-9/11, and Asian American transcultural studies. Between 1977-2010, Leong was the editor of the foremost journal in Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. There, he served as an adjunct professor of English and Asian American Studies. His stories (Phoenix Eyes [2000]) and poetry (Country of Dreams and Dust [1993]) received an American Book Award and PEN Josephine Miles Award. Leong, educated in the U.S. and Taiwan in film and comparative literature, is a consulting editor at UCLA; and the founding editor of CUNY FORUM, for The City University of New York’s Asian American and Asian Research Institute.

CONTACT for readings, performances, talks and workshops:
Schools, art centers, and other venues contact the writer for availability and locale. Special rates for non-profits,and schools.

Russell Leong 梁志英

E-mail:  tai88chi@gmail.com, or rleong@aasc.ucla.edu