Katie Gee Salisbury

About Katie Gee Salisbury

I’m the author of NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL, a new biography of Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, forthcoming from Dutton in March 2024. My work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Ringer, the Asian American Writers\' Workshop, and elsewhere. I also write the Substack Half-Caste Woman. In my practice as an editor, I offer editorial services to book authors around narrative development, packaging book proposals, coaching, structural and substantive feedback, line editing, proofreading, and consulting on the publishing process. As a Spring 2017 TED Resident, I gave a TED Talk titled \"As American as Chop Suey\" about my photojournalism project on Chinese restaurant workers in New York. The photos and stories of these workers are collected in the exhibition Thank You Enjoy, which began touring the US in 2018. In 2016, I contributed to the documentary project She Is Syria, which chronicles the stories of women and girl refugees. Previously, I edited award-winning books for Amazon Publishing and HarperCollins. I relaunched Book of the Month as a box subscription service for books in 2015. I also co-founded and served as editor in chief of William & Park, a digital magazine for creatives.

Experience

1. Author

   Penguin Random House

   Apr 2020 — Present · NY, US

   Writing a narrative nonfiction book about Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, who paved the way for Asian Americans and entertainers of color that followed in her footsteps, set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s, the birth of the Hollywood studio system, and an ever-expanding universe of talented hopefuls being groomed for international stardom. To be published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in summer 2023.

Education

• Stanford University

  MA, Sociology

  2007 — 2008

• Stanford University

  BA, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

  2003 — 2007