About this Event
Part of Litquake’s Craft and the Creative Life series
Three first-time authors reveal the path they took to publication. For some authors, the path is straightforward. For others, it’s a long, meandering trip. Bring your questions! Featuring Kai Harris, Pete Hsu, and Talia Lakshmi Kolluri.
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Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Kweli Journal, Longform, and The Killens Review, amongst others. In addition to fiction, Kai has published poetry, personal essays, and peer-reviewed academic articles on topics related to Black girlhood and womanhood, the slave narrative genre, motherhood, and Black identity. A graduate of Western Michigan University’s PhD program, Kai was the recipient of the university’s Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Award in Fiction for her short story, “While We Live.” Kai now lives in the Bay Area with her husband, three daughters, and dog Tabasco, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University.
Pete Hsu is a Taiwanese American writer based in Pasadena, Calif. His first novel is If I Were The Ocean, I’d Carry You Home (Red Hen). He is the author of the experimental chapbook, There is a Man (Tolsun Books). His work has also been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, F(r)iction, The Los Angeles Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He was a 2017 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow as well as the 2017 PEN in the Community Writer in Residence.
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri is the author of the debut story collection What We Fed to the Manticore (Tin House). Her short fiction has appeared in The Minnesota Review, Ecotone, Southern Humanities Review, The Common, and elsewhere. She was born and raised in Northern California and currently lives in California’s beautiful Central Valley with her husband and cat.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Southern Exposure, 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, United States
USD 20.00