Wancy Young Cho has appeared in Salon, The Windy City Times, Ghost Factory, No Touching Magazine, and Hair Trigger. He was the recipient of the 2008 Gold Circle Award for Traditional Fiction by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and took First Place in the 2005 Written Image Screenwriting Competition. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Wancy lives in Seattle with his two dogs, Memo and Tiki.
Putsata Reang: Resisting Erasure through Storytelling
Putsata Reang discusses the dangers of dwelling on differences and encourages audiences to share their personal stories as an antidote to erasure.
Tuesday, December 3, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
Shin Yu Pai: Ten Thousand Things: Artifacts of Asian American Life
In this talk enriched by audio clips, Pai shares intimate stories from Asian American communities drawn from two seasons of her chart-topping podcast.
Tuesday, December 17, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.
Jack Straw Cultural Center
An anthology and reading from Jack Straw Cultural Center and Raven Chronicles celebrating the first twenty years of the Jack Straw Writers Program, 1997-2016
