S162. Remapping Displacement: Women Writers from LA Redefine "Home"
Saturday, April 2, 2016
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Participants
Melissa R. Sipin won Glimmer Train's Fiction Open and coedited Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology on new Philippine myths. Her work is in Glimmer Train, Guernica, and Washington Square Review, among others. She cofounded TAYO Literary Magazine.
Nayomi Munaweera's debut novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, won the 2013 Commonwealth Prize for Asia. The New York Times called it "incandescent" and Publishers Weekly has compared her voice to that of Michael Ondatjee and Jumpha Lahiri. Munaweera's second novel is forthcoming.
Rae Paris is a NEA Fellow whose work appears in Guernica, Hobart Pulp, Feminist Studies, and other journals. She writes mostly in East Lansing, Michigan where she is assistant professor of creative writing at Michigan State University.
Melissa Chadburn has written for Buzzfeed, Poets & Writers, Al Jazeera America, and dozens other places. Her essay, “The Throwaways,” received notable mention in Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her first novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, is forthcoming.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and raised in Los Angeles. She has published five novels, including a trilogy of books about the Armenian genocide and its aftermath in the 20th century.