Authors Susan Choi and Cecily Wong
Join them for a fascinating discussion about their unique experiences,
their journey to become accomplished writers and the challenges that they continue to face.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.*
Manducatis Rustica, 46-35 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11101
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*Please arrive by 6 p.m. if you would like to order food and drinks from Manducatis menu.
The night’s topics will include:
Straddling Worlds—Susan Choi talks about growing up Korean in the American heartland and how her heritage affected her storytelling. Cecily Wong shares how her Chinese heritage and growing up in Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest shaped her writing.
Challenges Facing Asian American Writers—What unique challenges do Asian American writers face to get published? Are there advantages? What obstacles do Cecily and Susan continue to face every day?
Open Q&A—Cecily and Susan will take questions from the audience.
About Susan Choi
Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for the New Yorker.
Her first novel, “The Foreign Student,” won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second, “American Woman,” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, and her third, “A Person of Interest,” was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology “Wonderful Town: New York Stories” from the New Yorker. In 2010, she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award.
About Cecily Wong
Cecily Wong is the author of the novel, “Diamond Head,” a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LA Review of Books, Self magazine, Bustle, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Barnard College and lives and writes in New York.
“Queens Library Presents” is a series of community-based literary events sponsored by the Queens Library Foundation. The series is designed to bring library programs out of library buildings and into Queens communities. Proceeds from these events benefit Queens Library’s programs and services.
