The ist Asian American Writers’ Conference
in New York City

featuring:

Jessica Hagedorn
Lawrence Chua
Kimiko Hahn
Meena Alexander
Jason Hwang
Walter Lew
Curtis Chin
Kitty Tsui
Agha Shahid Ali
| Heinz Insa Fenkel

November 12, 9:00 AM
Hunter West 217

Sponsored by: Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College and Asian American Writers’ Workshop
For more information, call 212-228-6718 or 316-9860



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Meena Alexander was bor in India. Her works include poetry, fiction, and a memoir: House of
a Thousand Doors (1988); Nampally Road (1991); Fault Lines (1993). Her work
has been translated into several languages including Malayam, Hindi,
Arabic, German and Italian. She is a Professor of English at Hunter College
and the Graduate Centgr, City University of New York.

Juliana Chang is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. Her dissertation is on the
poetic works of John Yau, Jessica Hagedomm, Lawson Inada and Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha.
Curtis Chin is a poet and fictiongwriter. He is the recipient of a 1993 New York
foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing and a 1994 National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Arts Administration. He is the
Managing Director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Minphay Chiou is a New York based poet here to try and make this thing called poetry
work for you like it works for her, as a sensual and not always pleasurable
experience.

Rex Chen is finishing his last year at NYU Law School and identifies himself as a
politically active Taiwanese American whose imagination knows more than
Generajion X.
Aileen Cho is originally from Los Angeles (where she was active in the "L.A. Stand-
UpPoet Scene) and is now a reporter for the Greenwich Times, Connecticut.
She is also a co-editor for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop's
newsletter, explanasian.
Lawrence Chua is the Managing Editor of BOMB Magazine and a founding member of the
*black radio collective, Radio Bandung. His writings appear in the Village
Voice, the New York Times, Vibe, Details, Rolling Stone, the Nation and
Artforum, as well as the anthology Charlie Chan is Dead.
Heinz Insu Fenkl's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His first two
books are forthcoming: the Mimosa Sector (Kaya Productions), a "sci-fi"
% novel, and Memories of My Ghost Brother (Dutton). He teaches at Vassar.
Josie Siew-Phaik Foo's work can be found in many journals. Her poem American Lyric recently
® won the $1,000 Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Prize, 1994. She can be found later
this year in Premonitions from Kaya Press.
Dina Gan studied writing and philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the
@ Tecipient of the Van Lier Fellowship sponsored by the Asian American
Writers Workshop in New York City. She is also a features editor at A.
$ Magazine: Inside Asian America.
Eric Gamalinga was born in Manila, Philippines, where he has published three novels, a
y Collection of short stories and poetry. He has received grants from the
gXockefeller Foundation, MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the
#reative Arts and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Jessica Hagedorn $a poet, multimedia theater artist, novelist and screenwriter. She was born
raised in the Philippines and moved to the United States in her teens.
Hergovel Dogeaters was nominated for a National Book Award in the
ficti tegory and translated into several languages. Both the novel anda
coll en and prose, Danger and Beauty, are available from


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Penguin Books. She is the editor of Charlie Chan is Dead: An anthology of
Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Penguin).
Kimiko Hahn, author of Air Pocket (1989) and Earshot (1992), both published by Hanging

Loose Press, and The Unbearable Heart, (forthcoming from Kaya
Production) is currerftly working on a prose manuscript. The recipient of
NEA and NYFA Fellowships in Poetry, she is Assistant Professor of
English at Queens College /CUNY.

Howard Johnathan Hong is grateful whenever he visits New York because it puts him in tune with
his true purpose iff writing: theater and fiction. This is stark to all the
damn film and TV scripts he is forced to digest by his "friends" in L.A.

Jason Kao Hwang is a composer, violinist and poet. He was a member of the Asian American

Writers Group at the Basement Worksop in the early 80's which edited
American Born and Foreign for Sunbury Press and gave readings
everywhere.le has also been published in Chinese American Poetry: An
Anthology (University of Washington Press).

Helen Kim is currently the co-editor of the AAWW newsletter, explanasian. Having
grown up all her life in different parts of the "Deep South” she recently left
her heme to join other struggling writers in New York.

Johnathon Kim HyoSung Bidol, cultural worker and aspiring pedagogue, is delighted to be alive as a
participant in the turning of the next millennium.
Juliana Koo jg the co-editor of the Asian Pacific American Journal.
Soo Mee Kwon is the co-editor of the Asian Pacific American Journal.
Peter Kwong is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor of Urban
Affairs at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and
Professor of Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of
several books, a contributing writer for the Village Voice and an occasional
8 writer for The Nation.
Marie G. Lee is the President of the Board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

& Her latest novel, Saying Goodbye (Houghton Mifflin), was released in April,
and she has stories forthcoming in several anthologies and journals
including the Kenyon Review.

Walter Lew is a literary scholar, multimedia performer and editor of MUAE, a new
journal of Asian diasporic culture and society premiering early next year.
e Anthologized in Charlie Chan is Dead, Breaking Silence, New Worlds of
Literature, etc., his books are Excerpts from: IKTII DIKTE for DICTEE (1982)
and the forthcoming Premonitions: the Kaya Anthology of New Asian North
# — American Poetry, which he edited.
Yi-Chun Tricia Bin, a native of Taiwan, is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at
@ SUNY, Stony Brook. Her dissertation (in progress) examines issues of
“ gender and culture in cross-cultural women’s writing. She also teaches in
‘the English Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Jeffery Loo, téaches at Beaver College and resides in Philadelphia. His work has
appgared in various literary journals and is one of the editors of a new

Bic ls Northeast Corridor.

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Organizations

The Asian American Writers' Workshop was founded in 1991 to
facilitate the creation, dissemination and publication of Asian Pacific
American literature. To that end, the Workshop operates the Poetry
Caravan Reading Series, the Asian Pacific American Journal, weekly
creative writing workshops and fellowships for young Asian Pacific
American writers.

The programs of The AAWW are supported by Anheuser-Busch
Companies, The C.J. Huang Foundation, Coach Leatherware, Con
Edison, the Jerome Foundation, the New York Community Trust, the
Paramount Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation, The NYC
Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the
Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts and the many members of
The AAWW. For more info: Call (212) 228-6718. Address: 296 Elizabeth
Street, #2R, NYC 10012.

The Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College/CUNY was
established in 1993 and is the only program offering a comprehensive
series of courses on Asian American studies in the New York City area.
Next year the program will grant collateral major status to students
who have completed required courses.

Organizing Committee

Curtis Chin The Asian American Writers' Workshop
Kimiko Hahn Dept. of English, Queens College
Peter Kwong Asian American Studies Program, Hunter College

Marie G. Lee The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

Yi-ChunTricia Lin Dept. of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College

lexandra Seung Hye Suh SEORO Cultural Network; Columbia University