[Cwgrad-announcements] Congrats to Ching-In

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Congrats to Ching-In who recently won a full tuition scholarship to the New York Summer Writers' Institute (thanks to Laila Lalami for the nomination).

Rigoberto Gonzalez just did an interview with Ching-In for the National Book Critics Circle blog: http://bookcritics.org/blog 
 
A first-book author interview (between Ching-In and Ely Shipley) also recently went up at Boxcar Poetry Review: http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/019/conversation_chen_shipley.html

If you missed Ching-In's Skylight Books reading in LA, you can catch it here:  www.Poetry.LA 
 

or come see her read this Sunday at Rhapsodomancy:

Rhapsodomancy announces the writers reading on Sunday, April 19, 2009:
 
JERICHO BROWN
CHING-IN CHEN
SINA GRACE
EDAN LEPUCKI
 
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:30pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, 90027 (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst)
21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla at yahoo.com (RSVP not required, but appreciated)
$3 suggested donation at door.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org 

Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans and a B.A. from Dillard University, and he has served as poetry editor at Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. The recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, two scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego where he teaches creative writing. Western Michigan University's New Issues Poetry & Prose published his first book, Please. www.jerichobrown.com

Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press), a novel-in-poems chronicling the life of an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Kundiman Fellow, Ching-In has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in Tea Party, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Water~Stone Review. www.chinginchen.com

Sina Grace is the author of the comic book series Books with Pictures and The Roller-Derby Robo-Dykes versus The Cannibals. His work has appeared in several prose and graphic novel anthologies. He illustrated More Adventurous, the Rilo Kiley comic to the eponymous album; and also illustrated inserts and promotional material for Common Rotation, Finest Dearest, and others. Cedric Hollows in Dial 'M' for Magic is his first novel. He lives in Southern California. 

Edan Lepucki has published fiction in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, CutBank, Meridian, Avery, Narrative Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a regular contributor to The Millions book blog. She is the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles, private writing school for the brave, enthusiastic and talented. She's currently at work on a novel. 
 
www.rhapsodomancy.org

Notes can be sent to chinginchen at gmail.com