[New York, NY]

Jon Cotner, Farid Matuk, Dilruba Ahmed & Sandy Tseng
July 21, 2011, 7:00 pm
at AAWW

The Asian American Writers' Workshop will be hosting a series of readings this summer followed by moderated discussions and Q&A sessions with the audience. On Thursday, July 21 at 7pm, poets Jon Cotner (Ten Walks/Two Talks), Farid Matuk (This Is a Nice Neighborhood), Dilruba Ahmed (Dhaka Dust), and Sandy Tseng (Sediment), whose works all navigate through landscapes, will be reading at the Workshop. The Asian American Writers' Workshop is a national non-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing, and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans. For nearly 20 years, they have held readings, panel discussions, book parties, and other events spotlighting writers like Michael Ondaatje, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jhumpa Lahiri, establishing themselves as an intellectual sanctuary for Asian American literature with an annual audience of 11,000 and growing. Jon Cotner is one of two authors of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). He and co-author Andy Fitch recently completed another collaborative manuscript called Conversations over Stolen Food. Cotner and Fitch have performed their dialogic improvisations across the country and internationally. Cotner lives in New York City.