AWP Offsite: Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Author Showcase

Join us in store for a celebratory night of poetry and prose spotlighting Asian authors with recent debuts! Featured authors will read from their debut poetry collections, memoirs, and novels. This reading will be emceed by poets Susan Nguyen and Joshua Nguyen. Susan Nguyen's debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize and have appeared or are forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Tin House, Diagram, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the AZ Commission on the Arts, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review, she currently serves as the senior editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review. Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbook, American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press, 2021), and the craft-chapbook, Hidden Labor & The Naked Body (Sundress Publications, 2023). He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, Tin House, Sundress Academy For The Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He is the Wit Tea co-editor for The Offing Mag, the Kundiman South co-chair, a bubble tea connoisseur, and loves a good pun. He received his MFA/PhD from The University of Mississippi and currently teaches creative writing at Tufts University. E.M Tran is a Vietnamese American writer. Her novel, Daughters of the New Year, debuted this year from Hanover Square/HarperCollins. Her stories, essays, and reviews can be found in such places as The Georgia Review, Literary Hub, Joyland Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Harvard Review Online. Her essay for Prairie Schooner won their Summer Nonfiction Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award, and was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2018. She completed an MFA at University of Mississippi and a PhD in Creative Writing at Ohio University. She was born, raised, and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with her husband and two dogs. Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023). A Korean American adoptee raised in rural Vermont, she has received support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre’s Writing Studio, and the Vermont Arts Council. Her work has appeared in New England Review, The Cortland Review, Four Way Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Pleiades, and elsewhere. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in Johnson, VT where she serves as the Writing Program Manager at Vermont Studio Center. Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese American writer and author of the novel Four Treasures of the Sky (Flatiron Books). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Apogee, Ninth Letter, Passages North, The Rumpus, HuffPost, The Cut, Catapult, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming and has received support from Kundiman, Tin House, and VONA/Voices. She was born in Changchun, China, and grew up in Austin, Texas, where she currently lives. Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. Her collection Not Flowers (Variant Literature, 2022) won the 2021 Variant Lit Microchap Contest, and her work can also most recently be found in trampset, Rejection Letters, and Kissing Dynamite, among others. She is a contributing editor for Marías at Sampaguitas and has previously worked with COUNTERCLOCK and {m}aganda Magazine. She holds a BA in English from Emory University and studies poetry in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi. Jami Nakamura Lin is a Japanese Taiwanese Okinawan American writer and the author of The Night Parade, an illustrated speculative memoir (Mariner/HarperCollins, October 2023). Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Catapult, and Electric Literature, among other publications. She has received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts / Japan-US Friendship Commission, Yaddo, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, We Need Diverse Books, and the Illinois Arts Council. She received her MFA in nonfiction from the Pennsylvania State University, and lives outside Chicago. Ina Cariño is a 2022 Whiting Award winner with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in the American Poetry Review, the Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, t

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