R202. Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press

Marquis Salon 3 & 4, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
Thursday, February 9, 2017
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Since its founding, Coffee House has striven to make its publishing list as diverse as America. This has meant publishing many authors from "underrepresented" groups, but in particular it's become known for publishing some of the most exciting Asian-American writers in the country. Younger generations have been drawn to the press because they have been inspired by those mentors that came before them. These writers talk about influence and what it means to share a publisher and a community.


Participants

Moderator:

M. Evelina Galang, author of One Tribe, Her Wild American Self, and Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery, received the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Advancing Human Rights, and is an advocate of WWII Comfort Women. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Miami.

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award.

Bao Phi is program director of the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. He has been a spoken word poet since the early '90s. He has performed in numerous venues all over the country, and as an arts administrator, strives to serve different communities of writers locally and nationally.

Vi Khi Nao holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration. Her manuscript, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, won the 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest. Her novel is Fish in Exile.

Sun Yung Shin is the author of Unbearable Splendor; Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black. The editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, a coeditor of anthology Outsiders Within, and author of Cooper's Lesson, she is widely published in multiple genres.

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