Judy Soo Hoo Reading Room Assistant Coordinator 2230 Campbell Hall Ph. 310.825.5043 Fax. 310.206.9844 email: judysh@ucla.edu

Biographical Information

Judy Soo Hoo is the AASC Reading Room/Library Assistant Coordinator. She received a M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA; her thesis is titled, "The failure of gender transformations in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine."  In addition she was the former Amerasia Journal Annual Bibliographer.

She is also a playwright and her plays include  29 1/2 Dreams: Women Walking Through Walls (Co-Collaborator), Twice-Told Christmas Tales, Refrigerators, Texas, Beastly Beauties of American Monsters, and Solve for X.  She is a recipient of the EWP/AT&T New Voices Play Awards, Yukon Pacific New Play Award, and PEN/WEST Emerging Voices Fellowship.  Excerpts of her plays have been published in The Best Male Stage Monologues, The Best Stage Scenes (Smith and Kraus), and Bold Words:  A Century of Asian American Writing (University of Rutgers Press).