Wayne E. Yang is a New York-based writer / photographer. Yang grew up in South Carolina, where he learned to eat grits the proper way: smothered with butter and sprinkled with salt. You can imagine his horror when he went to graduate school in upstate New York and saw people eating their grits with milk and sugar. Wayne E. Yang’s writing has appeared in The North American Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Asian Review of Books, SFGate (the web version of the San Francisco Chronicle), A. Magazine, Melange, Dimsum (a Hong Kong literary magazine that was covered in Asia Week), Small Spiral Notebook and other publications. Yang’s photography is represented by ZUMA Press and WireImage. He writes a blog called eightdiagrams.com.