Customs and Departures An Evening with Thai American Writers

From June 24, 2010. Readings by novelist/TV writer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, poet Pimone Triplett, memoirist Ira Sukrungruang, and playwright/blogger Prince Gomolvilas, followed by a Q&A.

Program:

Opening remarks by Adam Somers, Executive Director of PEN Center USA.

Introduction by Brighde Mullins, Director of the Master of Professional Writing Program.

Cherry Chevapravatdumrong is the critically acclaimed author of the young adult novels, SHE'S SO MONEY and DUPLIKATE. She is also a writer and producer on FAMILY GUY.

Pimone Triplett is the author of three books of poems: RUMOR, THE PRICE OF LIGHT, and RUINING THE PICTURE. She is the recipient of the Levis Poetry Prize and Hazel Hall Poetry Prize, and she is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Washington.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoir, TALK THAI: THE ADVENTURES OF BUDDHIST BOY. He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of South Florida.

Prince Gomolvilas is a playwright whose plays include BIG HUNK O' BURNIN' LOVE, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, and the stage adaptation of the Scott Heim novel, MYSTERIOUS SKIN. He is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Drama, and he teaches in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC.

Q&A with the audience.

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