Since 2001, Thao Worra has worked with Asian and Asian American writers around the country, collecting their perspectives on their current work and the craft of writing. His interviews can be found in a special section of our interviews page.
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» Chang, Wah-Ming from Interviews
Fiction writer Wah-Ming Chang of Ithaca, New York, wrote The Tenth Girl, recently received the Mary Roberts Rinehart Grant as well as the Bronx Writers' Center Chapter One Award. Asian American Press caught up with her recently to discuss her wo...
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» Vang, Ka from Interviews
Ka Vang was born in Long Cheng, Laos, in 1975. A playwright, fiction writer and poet, she is a two-time recipient of the Playwrights' Center's Many Voices Fellowship, the 2002 Asian American Renaissance/Jerome Foundation's Artist Regrant prog...
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» Yamashita, Karen Tei from Interviews
Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer from California. She lived for nine years in Brazil, the setting for her first two novels, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990), and Brazil-Maru (1992), both of which received critical acc...
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» Lee, Sherry Quan from Interviews
Minnesota teacher and writer Sherry Quan Lee has been an eclectic and significant figure in the Asian American writers scene in the Midwest, and has worked with many of the writers here at different stages in their careers. She had volunteered...
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» Pai, Shin Yu from Interviews
Shin Yu Pai was born in Decatur, Illinois and grew up in Riverside, California. The child of Taiwanese immigrants, language and story-telling have always been central to her experience.
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» Yang, May Lee from Interviews
Hmong writer and community activist May Lee Yang was recently awarded an Artists Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to spend time on her writing. A former Many Voices Fellow of the Minnesota Playwrights' Center, May Lee Yang ...
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» Lee, Karen An-hwei from Interviews
Karen An-hwei Lee lives and teaches on the West Coast. A regular contributor to literary journals, she has completed several novellas and poetry collections. Her work has won numerous university awards, fellowships, and residencies, including a...
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» Shin, Sun Yung from Interviews
Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, South Korea and was raised in Chicago. She has lived in Boston, Pittsburgh, St. Paul, and Minneapolis and has worked at a variety of jobs including a clerk at a sheet music-and-band instrument store, drugstore de...
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» Trenka, Jane from Interviews
Jane Jeong Trenka has received fellowships from The Jerome Foundation, the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center, and SASE: The Write Place. Cited by the independent Minnesota newspaper City Pages a...
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» Chang, Victoria from Interviews
Her first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Review Award Series in Poetry and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in April 2005. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in journals such as The Nation, Poetry...
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» Su, Adrienne from Interviews
Born in 1967 in Atlanta and raised there, Adrienne Su attended Harvard University and the University of Virginia, where her mentors were Rita Dove, Gregory Orr, and Charles Wright. In 1995 she was the first Ralph Samuel Poetry Fellow at Dartmou...
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» Thammavongsa, Souvankham from Interviews
SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA is the author of Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003). Small Arguments started off as a series of chapbooks printed by the author and bound with Elmer's glue. It is 'a delicate and graceful hand naming the fragile material...
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» Apeles, Teena from Interviews
Earlier this year, Seal Press released Women Warriors: Adventures from History's Greatest Female Fighters by popular freelance writer Teena Apeles.
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» Chin, Marilyn from Interviews
Marilyn Chin is the author of Dwarf Bamboo and The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty. Her new book Rhapsody in Plain Yellow was published by Norton in 2002. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms...
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» Hagedorn, Jessica from Interviews
Jessica Hagedorn is an acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee, as well as a poet, playwright, and screenwriter. She was born and raised in the Philippines, and moved to the United States in her teens. She is the author of three no...
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» Reconstruction of voice: Hmong and Lao Writers from Interviews
SPEAKEASY recently had a chance to interview several young Hmong and Lao writers and artists recently to discuss their work and its relationship to their community as many Hmong and Lao rebuild their lives in the United States: Pacyinz Lyfoung i...
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» Hahn, Kimiko from Interviews
Kimiko Hahn is the author of Air Pocket (Hanging Loose Press, 1989), Earshot (HLP, 1992) which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award, The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996...
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