Summer Book Bash: Must-Read Memoirs with Curtis Chin, Greg Marshall, Jane Wong (& Rachel Louise Snyder)

Join us for a conversation with memoir writers Curtis Chin, Greg Marshall, & Jane Wong. There will also be a special appearance from Rachel Louise Snyder. All attendees will be eligible for a chance to win a set of eight best-selling memoirs, along with book-related prizes from Litographs and Ideal Bookshelf.

• Curtis Chin is co-founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City, and served as the non-profits' first Executive Director. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. He's currently writing projects for PBS and Warner Bros., and his memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant will be published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023.

• Greg Marshall was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Essays and has appeared in LitHub, Electric Literature, Fourth Genre, and Joyland, among other publications. He has received fellowships from MacDowell and the Corporation of Yaddo as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. Before moving to Texas to get an MFA, Greg was the arts and entertainment editor of The Park Record newspaper in Park City, Utah. LEG is his first book.

• Jane Wong is the author of the debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, out now from Tin House (2023). She is also the author of two books of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James (2021) and Overpour from Action Books (2016). An associate professor of creative writing at Western Washington University, she grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. 

There will be a pre-recorded segment from best-selling author Rachel Louise Snyder.

• Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises, a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Helen Bernstein Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, LA Times Book Prize, and Kirkus Award. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, and elsewhere. A 2020-2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Snyder is a Professor of Creative Writing and Journalism at American University. She lives in Washington, DC. Her latest book is Women We Buried, Women We Burned.

Moderator Stephanie Sendaula is Programming and Outreach Specialist at LibraryLinkNJ, and a huge fan of memoirs. 

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