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huge love of swimming and wrote the book, Why We Swim. She attended Harvard University,

where she rode crew, snowboarded, and graduated Magna Cum Laude in English and American Literature

and Language. She wrote a book in 2009 called American Chinatown, a people's history of five neighborhoods, which won the 2009-2010 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature and was the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.

She's been a recipient of the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Travel Journalism and the Jane Rainy Opel Young Alumni award at Harvard University. In 2017, she was

awarded the 2017 Carolla Sakel Crabe Excellence in Food Journalism Fellowship by the San Francisco

Chapter of Les Dame Descovier, a frequent contributor to the New York Times in California Sunday

magazine. Bonnie has performed many times at pop-up magazine

and other live storytelling events. She helped launch F&B Voices from the Kitchen, a storytelling

project from La Cochino. She currently lives and surfs in the Bay Area and works at the San Francisco

Writers Grotto. Welcome, Bonnie. Thanks for coming out, Mom's Stone have time to read books.

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