Sunday, Oct 29, 2023
Visiting Writer: Valerie Hsiung
About
Join us at the Union Chapel on Sunday, October 29 at 12:30pm for a reading by Lighthouse Works alumnus Valerie Hsiung (47). Hsiung will be joined in conversation by alumnus Anna Noyes (19). Reading at 12:30 pm, lunch to follow.
Note: we have a limited number of seats for lunch following the reading, so please RSVP on Eventbrite if you plan to stay for lunch. No RSVP is necessary if you're only attending the reading.
Artists
Bio
Valerie Hsiung (47) is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and the author of multiple poetry and hybrid writing collections, including The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming 2024), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath, 2023), To love an artist (Essay Press, 2022), selected by Renee Gladman for the 2021 Essay Press Book Prize, outside voices, please (CSU), selected for the 2019 CSU Open Book Prize, Name Date of Birth Emergency Contact (The Gleaners), YOU & ME FOREVER (Action Books), and e f g (Action Books). Her writing has appeared in print (The Believer, Chicago Review, The Nation), in flesh (Treefort Music Festival, Common Area Maintenance, The Poetry Project), in sound waves (Montez Press Radio, Hyle Greece), and other forms of particulate matter. Hsiung's work has been supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, PEN America, Lighthouse Works, and public streets and trails she has walked on and hummed along for years. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado where she teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & Poetics at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
Website
https://valeriehsiung.com/Bio
Anna Noyes’ (19) debut novel, The Blue Maiden, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in May 2024. Her story collection, Goodnight, Beautiful Women, was a finalist for the Story Prize and the New England Book Award, as well as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Indie Next Pick, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and Amazon Best Book of the Month. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Vice, A Public Space, and Guernica, among others. She has received the Lotos Foundation Prize and the Henfield Prize, as well as residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Lighthouse Works, the James Merrill House, and Aspen Words. She lives in New York, on Fishers Island.