Judith Nihei is a director, actor, and writer and has been involved with the development of Asian-American theater for twenty-five years. Nihei has written for stage and television and is on the writing staff of the children’s series The Puzzle Place. Her short story “Koden” is featured in American Dragons: Twenty-five Asian American Voices, edited by Laurence Yep. She is artistic director of the Northwest Asian American Theatre in Seattle and a faculty member of the Theater Department at Cornish College of the Arts.