Good Talks: Tina Chang and Mira Jacob

The Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW) is a national literary nonprofit dedicated to amplifying Asian and Asian diasporic storytelling.

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Tina Chang and Mira Jacob join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the paperback releases of their books HYBRIDA and GOOD TALK

Tina Chang and Mira Jacob join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the paperback releases of their books HYBRIDA and GOOD TALK. Following a reading from their work, they will speak to the intersections of their experiences and creative practices, discussing race, motherhood, and hybrid storytelling structures.<a href="https://booksaremagic.net/good-talks" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Book sales provided by our friends at Books Are Magic.</a>This event will be live-streamed on Zoom, and CART captions will be available. The first 100 RSVPs will receive access to the Zoom link via email. The event will also be live streamed on the Asian American Writers&#x27; Workshop YouTube page for the greater public.Tina Chang, Brooklyn Poet Laureate, is the author of Half-Lit Houses, Of Gods &amp; Strangers, and Hybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019). She is also co-editor of the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have been published in journals such as American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets &amp; Writers, among others. Hybrida was named one of the best books of 2019 by NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, Lit Hub,and was the Paris Review’s Contributor’s Favorite Book of 2019. She is the Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University.Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes &amp; Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize, and translated into seven languages. Her writing and drawings have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, and Vogue, and she has a drawn column on Shondaland. She teaches at The New School, and she is a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She lives in Brooklyn.

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