TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA # 1 Organized by TANC and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center

TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA is the first Tibetan woman poet to be published in the US. Her first book of poems Rules of the House was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include In the Absent Everyday (Apogee Press 2005), two chapbooks, In Writing the Names (Abacus, Potes & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). Tsering received her MA from University of Massachusetts and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She was raised in India and Nepal. Her work is deceptively simple; her prose poems and vignettes gesture lyrically to a rich present and a memorable past. Tsering has a book of poems forthcoming from Apogee Press, My Rice Tastes Like The Lake and has completed a non-fiction book on Tibet, Imagined Country, currently being reviewed by publishers. She is a resident of San Francisco and a happy neighbor of Haight & Ashbury. She will read from Imagined Country.

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[grinzin1]

hi tseringla so nice to hear about ur thought

[yakmanok]

It is so nice to see smart Tibetan woman. You go Tsering. Best wishes.