[2] Tsui was born in Hong Kong and lived there with her grandmother, Chinese actress Kwan Ying Lin, until she was five.
[3] Tsui graduated from San Francisco State University in 1975 with a Bachelor's degree in English language and literature.
[2] She wrote the piece “Sex does not equal death” for the 1996 anthology The second coming: a leatherdyke reader, edited by Patrick Califia and Robin Sweeney.
[6] Tsui has acted in stage productions with the Asian American Theater Company and Lilith Women's Theater, and has been featured in five films including Nice Chinese Girls Don't: Kitty Tsui, Framing Lesbian Fashion, and Women of Gold.
[11] Lambda Literary listed Tsui as one of the 50 most influential lesbian and gay writers in the United States.