If there was ever a time to lose yourself in writing, now is it. Creativity is the emotional and mental escape hatch that will save us all (and an appropriate amount of beer, if you’re into that!) so while we can’t physically host one of our amazing, award-winning Creative at the Cannery readings, we can run a virtual one this time around. Join us on zoom (Email mattjakubowski at hotmail dot com for the Zoom link) and settle into the comfort of your own home to hear these four incredibly talented local writers read their work, followed by a Q+A.
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CHRISTINA CHIU
Christina Chiu’s novel, Beauty, is the winner of the James Alan McPherson Award. She is also the author ofTroublemaker and Other Saints, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in 2001. Troublemaker was an alternate selection for Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club, a nominee for a BOMC First Fiction Award, and winner of the Asian American Literary Award.
Chiu has published in magazines and anthologies, including Tin House, Charlie Chan is Dead 2, Not the Only One, Washington Square, World Wide Writers, The MacGuffin, the Asian Pacific American Journal, Acorn, Grandmothers: Granddaughters Remember, and Not the Only One. Her stories have won awards and honorable mention in literary contests such as Playboy, Glimmer Train, New Millennium, New York Stories, World Wide Writers, Explorations, and El Dorado Writers’ Guild.
The recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, Chiu also received the Robert Simpson Fellowship, the Alternate Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Van Lier Fellowship; she won the New Stone Circle Fiction Contest, won second place in the Playboy Fiction Contest, and was nominated for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. She has been a Wiepersdorf Fellow and a Claire Woolrich Scholar.
Chiu curates and co-hosts the Pen Parentis Literary Salons in New York City. She received her MFA in writing from Columbia University.
LISE FUNDERBURG
Lise Funderburg is a writer and editor based in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, Salon, The Nation, Cleaver, Brevity, and The Chattahoochee Review.
Lise's latest book is Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, a collection of all-new work by 25 writers, which Publishers Weekly deemed a “sparkling anthology” in its starred review. Her memoir, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home, was chosen by Drexel University for its 2012 Freshman Read. Pig Candy fits into several genres—including narrative nonfiction, memoir, travelogue, and biography—but essentially, it’s a book about life, death, and barbecue.
Lise’s first book was a collection of oral histories, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity, the first to explore the lives of adult children of black-white unions. Black, White, Other has become a core text in the study of American multiracial identity.
Lise is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and teaches at the Paris Writers’ Workshop.
LOUIS GREENSTEIN
Louis Greenstein is the author of the 2014 novel Mr. Boardwalk (New Door Books), a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship, and the writer or co-writer of 10 plays, most recently One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro, which had critically acclaimed productions at the New York Musical Festival, A.R.T.'s second stage Oberon Theater, and Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre as well as a successful east coast tour. Louis is also a freelance magazine writer whose articles about popular culture, history, public health, medicine, nursing, business, and technology have appeared in publications including Philadelphia Magazine, Wharton Magazine, the University of Miami Medicine Magazine, and Penn Nursing.
FRAN WILDE
Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, three Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny, and Jonathan Strahan’s 2020 Year’s Best SFF. Fran directs the Genre Fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University and writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times,and Tor.com. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook, and at franwilde.net. She is represented by Andrea Somberg at Harvey Klinger.