Jay Caspian Kang (born December 31, 1979) is an American writer, editor, television journalist and podcast host.
[1] He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while his father obtained his post-doctorate degree in organic chemistry at Harvard[2] and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[1] After receiving his MFA, Kang spent a number of years in San Francisco and Los Angeles teaching creative writing and world history.
In his first contribution to the blog, "The Lives of Others," Kang wrote an analysis of how Taiwanese-American basketball player Jeremy Lin and Chinese-American rapper MC Jin "offered an alternative interpretation of what it meant to be an Asian-American.
"[9] The book revolves around a disgruntled MFA graduate named Philip Kim, who discovers that his elderly neighbor has been murdered, and who soon becomes the unlikely protagonist of a quickly unfolding mystery involving a struggle between fictionalized versions of two San Francisco institutions: Cafe Gratitude and Kink.com.
[13] He was nominated for an Emmy Award for a 2016 segment of the show on high school students joining the national anthem protests of police brutality.
[21] The documentary, called American Son, was about Chang's 1989 French Open run and the coinciding Tiananmen Square massacre.
[1] He has remarked that "Surviving cancer can cleanse the soul, sure, but once you're left facing the rest of your life, a patient's vision can tunnel down to a list of demands.