Bonnie Tsui

Bonnie Tsui is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of the new book On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters, an NPR "Books We Love" Nonfiction Staff Pick for 2025 and a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year. Her other books include Why We Swim, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Time magazine and NPR Best Book of the Year; American Chinatown, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and Sarah and the Big Wave, a children’s book about the first woman to surf Mavericks and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection. Her work has been recognized and supported by Harvard University, the National Press Foundation, the Mesa Refuge, and the Best American Essays series. She lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area.