Traci Chee is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for the Sea of Ink and Gold trilogy and We Are Not Free.
[2] After obtaining her master's degree, Chee entered a writing contest called The Pitch Wars, which gives new writers a chance to show their work to literary agents by pairing them up with established mentors.
[1] The Pitch Wars led her to obtain a literary agent and publishing deal with Putnam for her first book The Reader.
[3] In addition to multiple plot lines and a story-within-a-story, the book contains several ciphers for the reader to discover and decode.
[5] Chee's book We Are Not Free is a work of historical fiction about Japanese-American teenagers during World War II facing forced relocation and imprisonment at the Japanese-American internment camps, or segregated military service in war-torn Europe.