T202.
Beyond the Immigrant Narrative: The Poetics, Politics & Craft at the Margins
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
The immigrant narrative has long posed questions about borders, traditions, assimilation, and multiple identities. Writers and artists have worked across genres and media to create these experiential portraits. In this conversation, we'll explore the effects, consequences, and stories that emerge when writers and artists invoke characters from second- and third-generation immigrant heritages that journey through intersectional communities while creating one for themselves.
Participants
Juan Carlos Reyes has published the novella A Summer's Lynching and the fiction chapbook Elements of a Bystander. His fiction and essays have appeared in Waccamaw Journal, Florida Review, and Moss. He teaches creative writing at Seattle University and serves as executive editor at BigFiction.
Shin Yu Pai is the author of many books including Virga, ENSO, and AUX ARCS. She has taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University, and was a Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon College.
Kristen Millares Young is a prize-winning journalist, essayist and author of the novel Subduction. Named a Paris Review staff pick, Subduction won Nautilus and IPPY awards. The editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist, Kristen reviews books for the Washington Post.
Jason Magabo Perez is the author of This is for the mostless. Currently, Perez is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at California State University San Marcos.
David Heska Wanbli Weiden is the author of the novel, Winter Counts, nominated for the 2021 Edgar Award and named a New York Times Editors' Choice, Indie Next Pick, Amazon Best Book, and Book of the Month Club main selection. He was a 2018 MacDowell and PEN America Fellow. davidweiden.com
