Please join on at 7pm on the 2nd of September to hear from Addie Tsai, one of the most exciting voices in contemporary American writing.
Addie is the author of “Dear Twin” (2019), a unique and emotional exploration of family bonds and what holds us together, and “Unwieldy Creatures” (2022), a biracial, queer, nonbinary retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Addie will be in conversation with Kirin Khan, an Amsterdam-based writer who has been awarded a PEN Emerging Voices fellowship.
About Addie:
Addie Tsai (any/all) is an Asian American, Houston-raised, queer non-binary artist and writer who teaches Creative Writing at William & Mary. Addie is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel, Dear Twin (Metonymy Press), and the adult queer, non-binary, biracial Asian, Frankenstein retelling, Unwieldy Creatures (Jaded Ibis Press). Unwieldy Creatures has received rave reviews from outlets like BookRiot, Electric Lit, The Advocate, Buzzfeed News, Ms. Magazine, and a stunning blurb from MacArthur Genius Prize winner and Mississippi writer, Kiese Laymon. Addie is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, contributing writer at Spectrum South, and Founding Editor in Chief at the LGBTQIA+ fashion literary and arts magazine, just femme & dandy. Unwieldy Creatures was a 2022 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for Outstanding Achievement in Horror, Psychological Suspense, and Dark Fantasy Fiction.
About Kirin:
Kirin Khan (she/her) is a Pashtun-American writer living in Amsterdam. She is grateful for fellowships from PEN America Emerging Voices, SF Writers Grotto, AWP's Writer to Writer program, and SJSU's Steinbeck Fellowship, and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and Tin House. Her essay “Tight” was nominated by Nat. Brut for a 2018 Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Corporeal Khora, The Margins, Your Impossible Voice, 7x7.LA and elsewhere.
Doors will open at 7pm, and the event will be followed by a signing in the bookshop. Please note that this event will take place in our event space, which unfortunately is not currently wheelchair accessible. We are actively exploring solutions to this, and in the meantime we apologise for the inconvenience.
