Please join us on Saturday, August 6 th 1:00-3:00pm PT for Veins & Tributaries: Tracing the Burmese Diaspora at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery in San Francisco. The event will be both virtual and in-person. This multi-genre reading features authors Michelle Dunn Marsh, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Audrey T. Williams, Maw Shein Win, and Kenneth Wong. Co-sponsored by Kundiman Northern California and Ancestral Futures.
Register here: tinyurl.com/BurmaReading
Audrey T. Williams (co-host)
Audrey T. Williams writes from the intersection of her Anglo-Burmese and Black American heritage. She earned her MFA from CCA in San Francisco and writes speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Her first poetry chapbook, Where I Dream, was published in 2019 and her poems can be found in Space & Time Magazine,FUNGI, and Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle Grades. @Virgule2020 @audthentic_stories AncestralFutures.org
Maw Shein Win (co-host)
Maw Shein Win recent poetry book is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn) nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance’;s Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. Maw Shein’s previous collections include Invisible Gifts (Manic D Press); her chapbooks include Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). She is the inaugural poet laureate of the City of El Cerrito (2016-2018). She often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other writers and was a Spring 2021 ARC Poetry Fellow at UC Berkeley. mawsheinwin.com
Michelle Dunn Marsh
Michelle Dunn Marsh is an American of Indo-Burmese and Irish descent. She has worked with over twenty publishers and cultural institutions on books or public programming throughout the last three decades, and teaches masterclasses on publishing and on visual literacy. She conceived, and with Steve McIntyre co-founded Minor Matters, a collaborative publishing platform, in 2013. Minor Matters has published over twenty contemporary art books and distributed them internationally. Dunn Marsh was the subject of an exhibition at the Highline Heritage Museum in Burien, Washington in 2019, which resulted in her memoir Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, released in 2022.
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and San José, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven (Noemi Press, 2018), which won an Asian/PacificAmerican Award for Literature in the category of Adult Fiction, was named one of Entropy Magazine’s Best Books of 2018, and was a Small Press Distribution bestseller. Her second book, Names for Light: A Family History was the winner of the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and was published by Graywolf Press in August 2021. She holds a B.A. in literary arts from Brown University and an M.F.A. in prose from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in english-creative writing from the University of Denver, where she served as the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College, where she teaches creative writing and literature.
Kenneth Wong
Kenneth Wong is a Burmese-American blogger, author, translator, and language instructor. Born and raised in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), he currently lives in San Francisco, California; and teaches beginning and intermediate Burmese at UC Berkeley. His essays, short stories, articles, and poetry translations have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, AGNI, Grain, The Irrawaddy, Myanmar Times, Two Lines Press, and The Journal of Burma Studies, among others.
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