Events with Sonya Chung and Monica Youn

16 March 2010
Events with Sonya Chung and Monica Youn
Mixer - with Sonya Chung, Melissa Febos, and Shelly Oria
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Cakeshop, 152 Ludlow St.

Sonya Chung’s stories, review, & essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, and BOMB Magazine, among others. She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, and the Bronx Council on the Arts Writers’ Fellowship & Residency. She contributes regularly to the literary blog The Millions and teaches fiction writing at New York University and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Long for This World is her first novel. Sonya was born in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of Phillips Andover Academy, Columbia University, and the University of Washington.

Ignatz Remixed: MATMOS in collaboration with Monica Youn
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: The Asian American Writers Workshop
Street: 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
City/Town: New York, NY

AAWW Board member Monica Youn's second book of poems Ignatz was recently published by Four Way Books. Her first book Barter was published in 2003 from Graywolf Press. She has been awarded poetry fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Stanford University and has been a visiting professor of creative writing at Pratt Institute and at Columbia University. She works as an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she is the director of the campaign finance reform project.
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