Ed Lin’s first novel Waylaid was based on his childhood of renting out motel rooms. Published by Kaya in 2002, Waylaid was universally praised in a broad range of publications including Booklist, Asianweek and Playboy. Waylaid also won the Members’ Choice Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop in 2003.

Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.

Photo: Cindy Cheung