P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Hyeseung Song to lead a discussion with Hannah Bae, Prachi Gupta, Helen Rho, and Nina Sharma on artmaking and mental health for AAPI writers and artists, with a Q&A following the conversation. .
- This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating. Doors open at 6:30pm.
- Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase of the featured event book or any product in our café the night of an event.
- We encourage all guests to wear masks.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American painter and the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl. Docile has been called a "savagely beautiful memoir" by David Henry Hwang, a "revelation" by Chloé Cooper Jones and was named a "Best Book" by Apple, Electric Literature, and more. Raised in Texas, Song studied philosophy at Princeton and Harvard Universities, and painting at the Grand Central Atelier in New York City. A two-time Greenshields award winner, TedX speaker, and resident artist of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, the Vermont Studio Center and the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program, Song has also taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is at work on a novel, a meditation on grief, mental illness and the power of artmaking. Song lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Hannah Bae is a Korean American freelance journalist, nonfiction writer and illustrator who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement. She was a 2024 grantee in literature for the New York State Council on the Arts and a 2024 juror in nonfiction for The Kirkus Prize. She has contributed to several anthologies, including (Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health. Follow her on Instagram at @hannahbae.
Prachi Gupta is an award-winning journalist, author, and speaker. Her debut memoir, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us, was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award, named one of the best books of the year by Amazon and Audible, and nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award.
Helena Rho is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominated writer and the author of American Seoul: A Memoir. A former assistant professor of pediatrics, she has practiced and taught at top ten children's hospitals: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is a devoted fan of K-dramas, Korean green tea, and the haenyeo of Jeju Island. Stone Angels, now out with Grand Central Publishing, is her debut novel.
Nina Sharma's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Literature, and The Washington Post, among other publications. She received her MFA in writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has been awarded residencies from Vermont Studio Center and St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency.
Nina is formerly the Programs Director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and with Quincy Scott Jones she co-created Blackshop, a column that thinks about allyship between BIPOC people, featured on Anomaly. A two-time Asian Women Giving Circle grantee for her workshop, “No Name Mind: Stories of Mental Health from Asian America,” she currently teaches at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Nina is a proud co-founder of Not Your Biwi Improv. Her debut collection of personal essays is The Way You Make Me Feel: Love In Black and Brown (Penguin Press 2024).
