[Cwgrad-announcements] Vietnamse Writers Reading/Panel, Sunday October 21 (with address/contact this time)

[Ky-Phong Tran]

VIET ART CENTER FOUNDATION

12965 Historic Main Street, Garden Grove, CA 92840 Telephone: 714-534-0398
www.vietartcenter.org – Email: vietartcenter at aol.com


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 2PM-330PM
PANEL OF VIETNAMESE-AMERICA BOOK AUTHORS
Sponsored by California State Fullerton (CSUF)
Hosted by Isabelle 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 Writing and Literature at the California College of the Arts.

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

An associate professor of English and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Viet Thanh Nguyen is also a former Fiction Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. His publications include a book of criticism, Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002), as well as short fiction published or forthcoming in Manoa, Orchid: A Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.

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.=