Lan Samantha Chang is the program director for the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is the author of Hunger, a collection of short fiction and three novels, Inheritance, All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, and her latest novel The Family Chao released in 2022. Her work has been translated into nine languages and has been chosen twice for The Best American Short Stories. She has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University, Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. (Iowa Writers Workshop)
Cathy Park Hong is Korean American poet, essayist, and writer, and graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020, Penguin Random House) largely focuses on the common experiences of Asian Americans and deals with identity and belonging. Minor Feelings is also about her own experience and life growing up as a daughter of immigrants and speaks openly about her time as a student and writer. Described by Penguin Random House, as "a radically honest meditation on the Asian American experience. Hong draws upon her background as a poet and the daughter of Korean immigrants to create a work that flows seamlessly between cultural analysis, personal anecdotes, and historical framework."
Born in the U.S. to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1985, Amy began writing fiction as an incentive to cut back on her heavy freelance workload. Her novels include: The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and The Valley of Amazement (2013), all New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been translated into 35 languages, from Spanish, French, to Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Ocean Vuong is a best-selling Vietnamese-American poet and novelist. Ocean's most well-known works include Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a collection of poems and novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American novelist. His debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other accolades, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.
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