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Literary ancestors inspire and provoke, point the way forward, pull us into conversation. They might inspire imitation or rebellion—or both. Ultimately, a literary ancestor is one who helps call the writer home to herself. Join curator Shruti Swamy and authors Meng Jin, Yalitza Ferreras, Mimi Lok, and Claire Calderón on the Litquake Out Loud stage as they reflect on their own writer-ancestors, and share work that bears the influence of that relationship. FREE, $5-10 suggested donationRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/169192692899
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Claire Calderón is an Oakland-based writer and curator at work on her first novel. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and is the manager of The Ruby, a gathering space for women and non-binary artists in San Francisco.
Yalitza Ferreras is the recipient of a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a recent Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2016, Kenyon Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Aster(ix), The Southern Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won the Thesis Prize and is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Djerassi, Yaddo, Ucross, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and Voices of Our Nation.
Meng Jin is the author of the novel Little Gods, a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award and LATIMES First Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. She is a Kundiman Fellow, a David TK Wong Fellow, and indebted to many institutions, granting bodies, and kind humans for supporting her work. Her writing has appeared in some literary journals and magazines, as well as in the anthologies Pushcart Prize: Best Of The Small Presses and Best American Short Stories. Her next book, Self-Portrait With Ghost, a collection of shirt fictions, is forthcoming from Custom House in Summer 2022. She is at work on a new novel, Mothers And Girls: A Fake Memoir, for which she received a 2021 Creative Capital Award. She lives in San Francisco.
Mimi Lok is the author of the story collection Last Of Her Name, published October 2019 by Kaya Press. She is the winner of the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut short story collection, a California Book Award silver medal, and a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award. She is also a finalist for the 2020 National Magazine Award, Northern California Book Award, and CLMP Firecracker Award. Mimi’s work can be found in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, Lucky Peach, Hyphen, the South China Morning Post, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel. Mimi is also the founding director and executive editor of Voice of Witness, an award-winning human rights & oral history nonprofit that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Born and raised in the UK, Mimi lived and worked in China as a visual artist, writer, and educator before moving to the US, where she is currently based.
The winner of two O. Henry Awards, Shruti Swamy's work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. In 2012, she was Vassar College's 50th W.K. Rose Fellow, and has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and Hedgebrook. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow, a 2017 – 2018 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a recipient of a 2018 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her book A House Is a Body was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection, and her novel The Archer is forthcoming.
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