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.