Summer Literacy Reading Series
The Cal Poly English Department and Writers-At-Work present the
Summer Literacy Reading Series with two local authors
Jennifer Tseng is a poet and fiction writer who was born in Indiana and raised in California by a Chinese immigrant engineer and a first generation German American microbiologist. Her first book The Man With My Face (AAWW 2005) won the 2005 Asian American Writers' Workshop's National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006 PEN American Center Open Book Award. Her new book Red Flower, White Flower (Marick Press 2013, winner of the Marick Press Poetry Prize, features Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen, and her debut novel Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is forthcoming from Europa Editions.
Jennifer Tseng & Patti Sullivan Thursday, June 19
th
7 p.m. Bldg. 180, Room 114
Patti Sullivan is the author of two chapbooks, For the Day, DeerTree Press 2012 and Not Fade Away, Finishing Line Press 2014. Other poems appear in the journals Solo Novo, Café Solo, Artlife, Askew, and Hummingbird. She is a visual artist with works exhibited in San Luis Obispo and in print. She assists with the long-running Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival and the two monthly series’, Corners of the Mouth at Linnaea’s Café and Poetry at the Steynberg.
This event is free and open to the public. [email protected]
Summer Literacy Reading Series with two local authors
Jennifer Tseng is a poet and fiction writer who was born in Indiana and raised in California by a Chinese immigrant engineer and a first generation German American microbiologist. Her first book The Man With My Face (AAWW 2005) won the 2005 Asian American Writers' Workshop's National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006 PEN American Center Open Book Award. Her new book Red Flower, White Flower (Marick Press 2013, winner of the Marick Press Poetry Prize, features Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen, and her debut novel Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is forthcoming from Europa Editions.
Jennifer Tseng & Patti Sullivan Thursday, June 19
th
7 p.m. Bldg. 180, Room 114
Patti Sullivan is the author of two chapbooks, For the Day, DeerTree Press 2012 and Not Fade Away, Finishing Line Press 2014. Other poems appear in the journals Solo Novo, Café Solo, Artlife, Askew, and Hummingbird. She is a visual artist with works exhibited in San Luis Obispo and in print. She assists with the long-running Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival and the two monthly series’, Corners of the Mouth at Linnaea’s Café and Poetry at the Steynberg.
This event is free and open to the public. [email protected]
