R301. Asian American Caucus
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm
Participants
Ken Chen is the Executive Director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his poetry collection, Juvenilia, which was selected by Louise Glück. He is one of the founders of CultureStrike, an arts organization dedicated to migrant justice.
Dr. Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis is founding director of the arts nonprofit The Asian American Literary Review and coeditor-in-chief of its critically acclaimed literary journal. He is also a curator with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and adjunct faculty for the University of Maryland.
Sunyoung Lee is the publisher of award-winning literary nonprofit Kaya Press, where she has worked for the past twenty-two years.
Rita Banerjee received her doctorate from Harvard and is creative director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in LARB, Electric Literature, VIDA, Queen Mob’s Tea House, and on KBOO Radio’s APA Compass. Her novella, A Night with Kali, is forthcoming.