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Asian Moms: Tiger Moms, Magical Grandmas, and the Asian American Millennial
Friday, March 10, 2023
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Who are the Asian moms we grew up with, in our homes and our media, and how do they show up in our work? What are these moms rejecting, perpetuating, negating, or working against? This panel will discuss tropes associated with generations of Asian moms including the “Tiger Mom” and the “Magical Grandma.” We will also focus on how our own relationships with motherhood, as Asian American mothers and daughters, show up in our work—including lyric essay, ars poetica, and received forms.
Participants
Danni Quintos is the author of Two Brown Dots, winner of the 20th A. Poulin Jr. Prize, and Python, an ekphrastic chapbook. She is a Kentuckian, a mom, an educator, and an Affrilachian Poet. She received her BA from The Evergreen State College and her MFA in poetry from Indiana University.
Su Cho (PhD/MFA/BA) is the author of The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin, 2022) which won the National Poetry Series, and she is an assistant professor at Clemson University.
Lisa Low is the author of Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books, forthcoming), winner of the 2020 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest. Her poems appear in Copper Nickel, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her nonfiction won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize.
Anni Liu is the author of the poetry collection Border Vista, which won the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize from Persea Books. She's an associate editor at Graywolf Press and you can find her online at anniliuwrites.wordpress.org.
Marianne Chan is the author of All Heathens, the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student in English and creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
