Join us for Lactose Intolerant, a POC reading series hosted by Ruth Minah Buchwald featuring readings by Hannah Bae, Elaine Hsieh Chou, Sabrina Imbler, Yasmin Adele Majeed, Kari Sonde, and Tariq Thompson.
Hannah Bae is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. She is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She was a 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She has been hired to teach creative writing for Indiana University’s Writers Conference, Kundiman, Kweli International Literary Festival and The Resort LIC. She has received residencies from the Ragdale Foundation, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow and The Peter Bullough Foundation. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in books including “Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing” (Simon & Schuster, 2022), “(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health” (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) and “The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul” (food and drinks chapter co-editor/writer, 2018). She is focused on stories about Korean American culture and identity, and in 2019, several of her essays received nominations for The Pushcart Prize.
Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American writer from California. A 2017 NYU Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow and 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, her short fiction appears in Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Tin House Online, and Ploughshares. Disorientation is her first novel.
Sabrina Imbler is a half-Chinese writer and dyke based in Brooklyn. She is a staff writer for Atlas Obscura and the recipient of fellowships from Jack Jones Literary Arts, the Asian American Writer's Workshop, and Paragraph NY.
Yasmin Adele Majeed is a writer and MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received fellowships from Kundiman, Kweli, and the Periplus Collective, and is a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. Her fiction appears in the Asian American Literary Review and Best Debut Short Stories 2022.
Kari Sonde is an assistant audience editor at TIME Magazine and is based in Washington, D.C. Kari writes about food, culture, the environment, the internet and more. She's written for The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Bitch Media, New York Magazine, and more. She's also worked with Slow Food USA and the Asian American Writers Workshop.
Tariq Thompson is a Black poet from Memphis, Tennessee. He studies English and history at Kenyon College while working as an Associate and Intern for The Kenyon Review. In his free time, Tariq will most likely be found reading, writing, humming and playing Pokémon.