[Cwgrad-announcements] Mellon Asian/American Creative Showcase of Graduate Work featuring Vanessa Hua, Noel Mariano, Alison Minami, Patricia Rosales, Judy Soohoo, Jie Tian, Aloha Tolentino & Ching-In Chen

[Ching-In Chen]

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Ching-In

*The Mellon Group for Asian/American Literary & Cultural Studies in the 21st
Century presents:*

*Interpretative Fragments, from Diasporic Dust to Memorized Confession: an
Asian/American Creative Showcase of Graduate Work*

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Time: 3:30pm-5pm
Location: HMNS 1500

The participants: Ching-In Chen, Vanessa Hua, Noel P. Mariano, Alison
Minami, Patricia Rosales, Judy Soo Hoo, Jie Tian & Aloha Tolentino

*Ching-In Chen* is the author of *The Heart's Traffic *(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, *We Will Not Be Moved!: A Story of Oakland Chinatown*,
was screened as part of the 2004 National Queer Arts Festival. Ching-In is
the co-editor of the zine, *The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting
Partner Abuse in Activist Communities*, 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.

*Vanessa Hua* 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.

*Noel P. Mariano *is the author of *A Girl Named Hemingway Lee*, 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 *Circumlocution Literary*, 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: www.circumlocutionlit.com. He was just awarded a Kundiman Asian
American Poetry Fellowship.

*Alison Minami* 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.

*Patricia Rosales *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.

*Judy Soo Hoo* is working on a novel, *The Mysteries of George*, 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 *Santa Clara Review*.

*Jie Tian* 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.

*Aloha Tolentino* 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.

~ Refreshments will be Served ~
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Ching-In Chen
THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009)
www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp
www.chinginchen.com
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