Qian Julie Wang is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood. A graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College, she was formerly a commercial litigator and is now managing partner of Gottlieb & Wang LLP, a firm dedicated to advocating for education and civil rights. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.