[Cwgrad-announcements] Vietnamse Writers Reading/Panel, Sunday October 21

[Ky-Phong Tran]

Please forward.  I will be there but not reading :( 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 2PM-330PM
PANEL OF VIETNAMESE-AMERICA BOOK AUTHORS

    * Sponsored by California State Fullerton (CSUF)
    * Hosted by sabel Pelaud of San Francisco State University (SFSU)
    * Presenting the following speakers: Aimee Phan, Lan Tran, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Quang Pham 

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud is assistant professor in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University . Pelaud is specialized in Vietnamese American literature and is co-director of the Vietnamese American Studies Center at SFSU. Her essays and short stories have been published in Making More Waves (1997), Tilting the Continent (2000), Vietnam Dialogue Inside/Out (2001). Her academic work can be found in Mixed Race Literature (2002), The New Face of Asian Pacific America (2003) and Amerasia Journal (2003).
Aimee Phan

Aimee Phan was born and raised in Orange County , California . She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won a Maytag Fellowship. Her first book, WE SHOULD NEVER MEET, was named a Notable Book by the Kiryama Prize in fiction and a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today and The Oregonian. She is currently an Assistant Professor in English at Washington State University .
Lan Tran

Award-winning writer/performer Lan Tran has been featured on NPR and presented at numerous off-Broadway theaters, New York City Hall , the Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theater, the Ford Theatre, and universities across the country. Lan's first solo show, 'How to Unravel Your Family," played to a sold-out audience in the Lincoln Center Theater-sponsored American Living Room Festival. She has published fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in literary journals and, most recently, "Lone Stars," a tale about her Vietnamese-Texan upbringing in Waking Up American (Seal Press, 2005) and Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass Books, 2004). She is a 2005 recipient of the PEN/Rosenthal Fellowship, was a finalist for the Heideman award, a recipient of the York Prize as well as residency fellowships from Hedgebrook, the Ragdale Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Nguyen was born in Ban Me Thuot, Viet Nam , and grew up in San Jose , California . After doing his undergraduate education in English and Ethnic Studies at Berkeley and later received a doctorate in English (also at Berkely). He started teaching at the University of Southern California in the Department of English and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity in 1997. His articles and reviews have been published in American Quarterly, American Literary History, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, Western American Literature, Hitting Critical Mass, positions: east asia cultures critique, Jouvert, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature, and A. Magazine.
Quang Pham

Quang X. Pham is an entrepreneur and author of the acclaimed memoir, A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey. At the age of 10, he fled the war in Vietnam and resettled in California . He later served as a U.S. Marine pilot in the 1991 Gulf War then started his own company. Quang has given many speeches and has appeared on national radio and television. His writings have been published in numerous newspapers.