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The Warren Community College Visiting Authors Series presents Novelists Lee Upton and Sung J. Woo
Lee Upton writes in multiple genres. Her comic novel, TABITHA, GET UP, was launched in May 2024 from Sagging Meniscus Press. Her most recent book of poetry is her seventh collection, The Day Every Day Is, winner of the Saturnalia Books Prize (2023). Her writing has been recognized as noteworthy in listings in editions of Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and Best American Essays. Her awards include the Open Book Award from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center; the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America; the Pushcart Prize; the National Poetry Series Award; the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award; and the BOA Short Fiction Award.
Sung J. Woo’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, PEN/Guernica, Financial Times, and Vox. He has written five novels: Lines (2024), Deep Roots (2023), Skin Deep (2020), Love Love (2015), and Everything Asian (2009), which won the 2010 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Award. In 2022, his Modern Love essay from The New York Times was adapted by Amazon Studios for episodic television. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey.
Please join us Wednesday, October 23, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in room 123A , This program is free and open to the public. Warren Community College, located at 475 Route 57 West in Washington, NJ, offers creative writing workshops and literature courses. To find out more about WCCC’s course offerings, or for directions to the Washington campus, please visit www.warren.edu.
