A Night of Literary Readings at New Bloom

Join us at New Bloom for a literary reading and discussion on craft, writing, and diasporic identity with a wonderful group of fiction and non-fiction writers: Michelle Kuo, Daniel Yo-Ling, Karissa Chen, and Amy Zhang.

We’ll be reading from our respective works, and then engaging in a discussion about character, structure, form, writing in both Mandarin and English, as well as the rich possibilities creative writing provides for explorations of identity and multiculturalism. Come with questions and stay for a drink after!

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Thursday, March 30 

7pm - Doors Open 

7:30-8:30pm - Reading + Discussion/Q&A

Amy Zhang is a multidisciplinary storyteller and the winner of the 2022 Joyland Open Borders Fiction Prize. Previously, she was the non-fiction editor at Hyphen magazine and a segment producer for Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. Born in Beijing, Amy grew up in Hong Kong and lived in New York City for six years before coming to Taipei on a Huayu fellowship. She is currently a book editor for Heidi Pitlor Editorial.

Michelle Kuo is the author of Reading with Patrick, a memoir that explores education, poverty, and the criminal legal system. It was a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, and a community reads pick at libraries and universities across the United States. She has published in The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Public Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point and other outlets. She co-writes A Broad and Ample Road, a newsletter on culture and politics in Taiwan. Previously a lawyer for undocumented immigrants, she is currently a Visiting Professor at the National Taiwan University and is working on a second book.

Karissa Chen is the author of Homeseeking, forthcoming from Putnam in 2024. She has been published in Bon Appetit, The Atlantic, The Cut, Eater, Catapult, and more. A 2015 Fulbright Fellowship recipient, she now resides in Taipei, Taiwan, though she still considers New Jersey her home. She is the Editor-in-Chief at Hyphen magazine.

Daniel Yo-Ling (he/they/他) is a queer Taiwanese American writer and independent scholar based in Taipei. Daniel is currently a contributing editor at New Bloom Magazine and primarily writes about gender and (a)sexuality in the context of Taiwan's LGBTQ+ movement. They are currently working on a novel titled 親愛的有誼, which explores asexual and transgender parenthood, polyamory, and friendship in turn-of-the-century Taipei.