Sarah Park Dahlen is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Department of Asian American Studies and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies. A graduate of UCLA’s Asian American Studies Department, she earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research is on Asian American youth literature and transracial Korean adoption. She co-edits Research on Diversity in Youth Literature with Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, co-created the Diversity in Children’s Literature infographics, and administered Lee & Low’s 2015 Diversity Baseline Survey. Her next books address Asian American youth literature with Paul Lai and race in Harry Potter with Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.
Open to work for hire and IP work in picture book nonfiction, chapter book nonfiction, middle grade nonfiction, and young adult nonfiction. Special interest in Asian American Studies, Asian diaspora, Korean diaspora, transracial Asian adoption, race, history, biography, and nonfiction.
