Tracy Quan

TRACY QUAN's first novel, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, has been translated into more than six foreign languages. Her personal essays and other writings have appeared in South China Morning Post, The Asian Review of Books, The Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), San Francisco Chronicle and the Featurewell syndication service. tomatoQuan's work has also appeared in Men's Health, AsianAvenue, Civilization and Lingua Franca. "The Littlest Harlot: Barbie's Career As a Role Model" was published in the Routledge anthology Whores and Other Feminists. Quan is also a contributor to NYC Sex: How New York Transformed Sex in America. The daughter of a computer programmer, Quan was the human confederate in the 1996 Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence and a judge in the 1997 Loebner Prize Competition. However, she has inherited no mathematical talents or tendencies from her programmer parent. She is a frequent panelist and speaker, addressing audiences about issues that affect the sex industry. Live speaking engagements include: San Francisco MOMA, Idea City (Toronto), Real Art Ways (Connecticut), Museum of Sex (New York), Tisch School of the Arts (New York University) and Open Society Institute (New York.) Tracy Quan has no pets — only pet causes — and lives in Manhattan.