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Fatimah Asghar
Recording of Keynote Fatimah Asghar is a nationally touring poet, performer, educator and writer. Her work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets and many others. Her work has been featured on new outlets like PBS, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others. In 2011 she created Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first Spoken Word Poetry group, REFLEKS, while on a Fulbright studying theater in post-genocidal countries. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. Her chapbook After came out on Yes Yes Books fall 2015. She is the writer of Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Currently she is an MFA candidate at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.
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Eugenie Chan
Recording of Keynote Eugenie Chan is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced or developed across the United States, including at the Asian American Theater Company, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Centenary Stage, Crowded Fire, Cutting Ball, East West Players, Group Theater, Houston Grand Opera: HGOco, Magic Theatre, Ma-Yi, Northwest Asian American Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, Perishable, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Thick Description.
Her screenplays have screened at the Asians on Film, Berlin, Big Apple, Cinestory, Dis-Orient, Mill Valley, San Diego Asian, and Toronto Independent Film Festivals. Currently, Eugenie is working on a commission about the sexploitation of women laborers in the marijuana industry from StoryWorks, a collaboration between Tides Theater and the Center for Investigative Reporting. She teaches at the University of San Francisco's Performing Arts & Social Justice Department, is playwright emerita at Cutting Ball Theater, and a New Dramatist and Playwrights Foundation resident alumna. B.A. Yale University; M.F.A. New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. |
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E. J. Koh
Recording of Keynote E.J. Koh is the recipient of the 2016 Pleiades Press Editors Prize and her collection of poems A Lesser Love is forthcoming in 2017. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in World Literature Today, TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, Pleiades, Columbia Review, Narrative Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, SWARM, and Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics (Black Ocean Press, 2014). She has been featured in Flavorwire’s 23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry, Culture Trip’s 10 Americans Changing the Face of Poetry, and Brit + Co’s 16 Modern Poets You Need To Know About. She accepted fellowships at Kundiman, The MacDowell Colony, Napa Valley’s Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, Hannah J. Caldwell Excellence Award, Nadya Aisenberg Grant, and the Jack Straw Writers Program. She earned her MFA at Columbia University in New York for Creative Writing and Literary Translation in Korean and Japanese. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle University, Portland Community College, and a panelist for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. She lectures at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle.
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