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Crossroads: Asian America/Asian diaspora Across Disciplines
Sep 25 2009
4:30 p.m.
Bridgewater Room at the Neal Marshall Center
Indiana University Asian American Studies presents:
“Crossroads: Asian America/ Asian Diaspora Across Disciplines”
A Poetry and Fiction Reading
WHERE: Bridgewater Room at the Neal-Marshall Center
WHEN: Saturday, September 26th
TIME: 4:30-5:45 p.m.
Debra Kang Dean is the author of Back to Back (1997), a chapbook of poems, and two full-length collections from BOA Editions: News of Home (1998) and Precipitates (2003). Her poems have been featured online at The Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily; they have also been published in a number of anthologies, including Unsettling America, Best American Poetry, The New American Poets, Yobo, and Yellow as Tumeric, Fragrant as Cloves. Her personal essays have appeared in New England Review, Tar River Poetry, Many Mountains Moving, and in the anthology Under Western Eyes.
Eugene Gloria earned his BA from San Francisco State University, his MA from Miami University of Ohio, and his MFA from the University of Oregon. He is the author of two books of poems — Hoodlum Birds (Penguin, 2006) and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (Penguin, 2000), which was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and the 2001 Asian American Literary Award. He has also received a Fulbright Research Grant, a grant from the San Francisco Art Commission, a Poetry Society of America award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches creative writing and English literature at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana
Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West, and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. His first book, the short story collection Arresting God in Kathmandu (2000, 2001) has been translated into French and Greek. His stories have been read live on National Public Radio and published widely as well as in Scribner’s Best of the Writing Workshops edited by Sherman Alexie, and Best American Short Stories edited by Amy Tan. Upadhyay’s second book, the novel The Guru of Love (2003) was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003, and a finalist for the 2004 Kiriyama Prize. His recent story collection, The Royal Ghosts, won the 2007 Asian American Literary Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award in fiction. It was also a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award.
This event is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of Indiana University.
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