<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif">Hope to see you there & please help spread the word!<br><br>Ching-In<br><br></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><i>The
Mellon Group for Asian/American Literary & Cultural Studies in
the 21st Century presents:</i></font><div class="gmail_quote">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Interpretative
Fragments, from Diasporic Dust to Memorized Confession: an
Asian/American Creative Showcase of Graduate Work</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span>Date:
</span></span>Wednesday, April 8, 2009<br>Time: 3:30pm-5pm<br>Location:
HMNS 1500<br><br>The participants: Ching-In Chen, Vanessa Hua, Noel
P. Mariano, Alison Minami, Patricia Rosales, Judy Soo Hoo, Jie Tian &
Aloha Tolentino</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Ching-In
Chen</b> is the author of <i>The Heart's Traffic </i>(Arktoi
Books/Red Hen Press). Daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Kundiman
Fellow, Ching-In has worked in the Asian American communities of San
Francisco, Oakland. Ching-In's poem-film, <i>We Will Not Be Moved!:
A Story of Oakland Chinatown</i>, was screened as part of the 2004
National Queer Arts Festival. Ching-In is the co-editor of the zine,
<i>The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in
Activist Communities</i>, and is currently co-editing an anthology on
militarism, gender and war from the perspectives of girls, women and
non-gender-conforming people of color with a collective of women of
color based in Riverside.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Vanessa
Hua</b> is a second year MFA fiction candidate at UCR. She is winner
of the 2008 Atlantic Monthly student fiction prize. Previously, she
worked as a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle,Hartford
Courant, and Los Angeles Times. Born and raised in the San Francisco
Bay Area, she is the daughter of Chinese immigrants.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Noel
P. Mariano </b>is the author of <i>A Girl Named Hemingway Lee</i>,
which was an honorable mention in Seven Point Star Press’s 2007
Poetry Chapbook competition. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Noel is
a currently a MFA graduate student in Creative Writing where he
helped edit and produce the first national “Coming Out Monologues,”
an activist theatre project dealing with the LGBT community. When
not spending time writing, teaching or volunteering time for various
grassroots social justice organizations, Noel serves as the editor of
<i>Circumlocution Literary</i>, an online literary magazine focused
on publishing poetry, fiction, essays and artwork and showcasing
reviews and interviews pertaining to young writers. You can visit it
here: <a href="http://www.circumlocutionlit.com" target="_blank">www.circumlocutionlit.com</a>. He was just awarded a Kundiman Asian
American Poetry Fellowship.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Alison
Minami</b> is from Brookline, MA. She has worked as a waitress, high
school teacher, adjunct writing professor, and crisis counselor. She
likes performing and has worked with the Pan Asian Repertory Theater
and UC Riverside's Theater.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Patricia
Rosales </b>is a Chinese/Filipino American fiction writer who was
raised in the San Fernando Valley and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Influenced by her father who worked in film and television, she
earned her Bachelor's Degree at USC's School of Cinema Television.
For eight years she worked in both the film and television as a
writer's and producer's assistant before deciding to return to her
love of prose. She is currently working on a collection of short
stories as a Creative Writing MFA candidate at UC Riverside.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Judy
Soo Hoo</b> is working on a novel, <i>The Mysteries of George</i>,
about a family patriarch, Moon, the founder of the dusty Arizona town
of George, who vanishes. His son has dreams of turning the town into
a pagoda-water resort for tourists. The specter of the missing Moon
hovers over the town. Her fiction has been published in the <i>Santa
Clara Review</i>.<br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Jie
Tian</b> is a first-year MFA in Poetry at UC Riverside. A native of
China, she came to the US in the early 1990s, and is now exploring
her roots and inheritance, memory and migration, and the nature of
art and poetry through her writings. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><b>Aloha
Tolentino</b> emerged from a queer, male, immigrant Filipino’s
nostalgic memory of enacting Ms. Universe pageants in his living
room. Exclusively performing at UC Riverside’s “Dragalicious Drag
Ball” these past five years, Aloha hopes to create more work that
could reach different audiences. Her partially closeted male identity
graduated cum laude and received his bachelor’s degrees in music
and English in 2002. He is enjoying his second year as a master’s
student in the Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, Performance program at
UC Riverside.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif">~
Refreshments will be Served ~</font></p>
</div>-- <br>~~~~~<br>Ching-In Chen<br>THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009)<br><a href="http://www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp">www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp</a><br><a href="http://www.chinginchen.com">www.chinginchen.com</a><br>