Susan Blum­berg-Kason is a mem- oirist and biog­ra­ph­er and co-edi­tor of an anthol­o­gy set in Hong Kong. She is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to the Asian Review of Books and World Lit­er­a­ture Today. She became inter­est­ed in 1930s Shang­hai when she was in the city in the mid-1990s for her the­sis research. Susan now lives with her fam­i­ly in the Chica­go suburbs.