Join the LRCW program for a reading at Word Virus featuring Sara Jaffe, Emilly Prado, Jay Ponteri, & Sara Vetiver. Emilly Prado is an award-winning writer, educator, and cultural worker living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Funeral for Flaca (Future Tense Books, 2021), a Pacific Northwest Book Award–winning essay collection praised by Ms. Magazine as […]
The Whole Truth, the Half Truth, and Something Like the Truth." Examining memory may be what initially draws some of us towards writing, but the truth is our memories are malleable and the line between fiction and fact can feel blurry, especially when invoking imagination. The boundaries of truth, it turns out, aren’t universally drawn. […]
Inspired by the author’s own family history, and spanning the past hundred years of Chinese history, Kangkang Li Kovacs’s multi-generational family saga explores how women survive the tsunamis of history. Nothing to My Name (Viking) chronicles the intertwined fates of three generations of Chinese women: Ah Xue, Mimosa, and Fei. The Grandmother, Ah Xue, witnesses the […]