8/27: Office Hours with Jessamine Chan & Crystal Hana Kim
Join local poet Alison Lubar for a 2-hour conversation and Q&A with award-winning novelists Crystal Hana Kim and Jessamine Chan. All registrants will be emailed a link to join the live session and a complimentary recording afterward.
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 6:00-8:00 pm ET
Location: Online (Zoom)
Local poet Alison Lubar will lead this live interview and Q&A with award-winning novelists Crystal Hana Kim and Jessamine Chan. Perfect for aspiring fiction writers, students will have the opportunity to ask questions about Jessamine’s and Crystal’s novels, writing practices, careers, and experiences navigating the publishing world.
All registrants will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a free, signed copy of The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan or The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim. You can purchase additional raffle tickets below.
Crystal Hana Kim is the author of The Stone Home (April 2024) and If You Leave Me (2018), which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. She is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, nominated by Min Jin Lee. She is also a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winner. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Guernica, ELLE, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.
Jessamine Chan is the author of The School for Good Mothers, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Carnegie Medal, and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022. Translations in twenty languages have been published or are forthcoming. She lives in Chicago with her family.
Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their work has been nominated for both the Pushcart & Best of the Net, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022), queer feast (Bottlecap Press, 2022), sweet euphemism (CLASH!, Spring 2023), and it skips a generation (Stanchion, Fall 2023).
Join local poet Alison Lubar for a 2-hour conversation and Q&A with award-winning novelists Crystal Hana Kim and Jessamine Chan. All registrants will be emailed a link to join the live session and a complimentary recording afterward.
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 6:00-8:00 pm ET
Location: Online (Zoom)
Local poet Alison Lubar will lead this live interview and Q&A with award-winning novelists Crystal Hana Kim and Jessamine Chan. Perfect for aspiring fiction writers, students will have the opportunity to ask questions about Jessamine’s and Crystal’s novels, writing practices, careers, and experiences navigating the publishing world.
All registrants will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a free, signed copy of The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan or The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim. You can purchase additional raffle tickets below.
Crystal Hana Kim is the author of The Stone Home (April 2024) and If You Leave Me (2018), which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. She is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, nominated by Min Jin Lee. She is also a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winner. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Guernica, ELLE, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.
Jessamine Chan is the author of The School for Good Mothers, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Carnegie Medal, and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022. Translations in twenty languages have been published or are forthcoming. She lives in Chicago with her family.
Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their work has been nominated for both the Pushcart & Best of the Net, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022), queer feast (Bottlecap Press, 2022), sweet euphemism (CLASH!, Spring 2023), and it skips a generation (Stanchion, Fall 2023).
Join local poet Alison Lubar for a 2-hour conversation and Q&A with award-winning novelists Crystal Hana Kim and Jessamine Chan. All registrants will be emailed a link to join the live session and a complimentary recording afterward.
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 6:00-8:00 pm ET
Location: Online (Zoom)
Local poet Alison Lubar will lead this live interview and Q&A with award-winning novelists Crystal Hana Kim and Jessamine Chan. Perfect for aspiring fiction writers, students will have the opportunity to ask questions about Jessamine’s and Crystal’s novels, writing practices, careers, and experiences navigating the publishing world.
All registrants will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a free, signed copy of The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan or The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim. You can purchase additional raffle tickets below.
Crystal Hana Kim is the author of The Stone Home (April 2024) and If You Leave Me (2018), which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. She is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, nominated by Min Jin Lee. She is also a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winner. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Guernica, ELLE, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.
Jessamine Chan is the author of The School for Good Mothers, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Carnegie Medal, and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022. Translations in twenty languages have been published or are forthcoming. She lives in Chicago with her family.
Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their work has been nominated for both the Pushcart & Best of the Net, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022), queer feast (Bottlecap Press, 2022), sweet euphemism (CLASH!, Spring 2023), and it skips a generation (Stanchion, Fall 2023).
