Swirling into a Field of Life

Christopher B. Patterson (they, he) is an award-winning author and associate professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia focusing on transpacific empire. Chris is the author of three academic books (Transitive Cultures, Open World Empire, and Domesticating Brown), as well as two edited collections (Made in Asia/America and Transpacific, Undisciplined). Under their matrilineal name Kawika Guillermo, Chris has published two award-winning novels, the poetry book Nimrods, and the creative non-fiction book Of Floating Isles: on growing pains and video games. Chris is the surviving husband of the scholar and award-winning author Y - Dang Troeung. 

Vinh Nguyen is an associate professor of English at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. He is the author of the academic book Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience, winner of Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies and the Shelly Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies from the American Studies Association, and the speculative memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse. He is also co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (with Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi) and Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada (with Thy Phu).