Marylyn Tan, Christopher Soto, Amanda Choo Quan
Marylyn Tan
Christopher Soto
Amanda Choo Quan
Sunday, November 6
6pm
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Join the Poetic Research Bureau as we welcome Marylyn Tan, the first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry in English with her debut volume, GAZE BACK. Joining Tan will be two of Los Angeles’s most exciting poets, Christopher Soto and Amanda Choo Quan.
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Queer, female, and Chinese, Marylyn Tan is a linguistics graduate, poet, and artist who has been performing and disappointing since 2014. Her work trades in the conventionally vulgar, radically pleasurable, and unsanctioned, striving to emancipate and restore the alienated, endangered body. Tan is the poetry reader for Singapore Unbound, founder of multidisciplinary arts collective DIS/CONTENT(hellodiscontent.carrd.com), and can be found in her habitat at instagram.com/marylyn.orificial or facebook.com/mrylyn. She lives in Singapore.
Christopher Soto currently works at UCLA’s Ethnic Studies Research Centers, and he also teaches at UCLA’s Honors College. He has previously taught at NYU where he received his MFA in Poetry and was a Goldwater Hospital Writing Fellow, Columbia University as a June Jordan Teaching Corp Fellow, and at Occidental College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. He previously interned with the Poetry Society of America and he served on the Board of Directors with Lambda Literary. He is the editor of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018) and the author of the limited-print chapbook Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016).
Amanda Choo Quan is a writer, artist and essayist who is both Trinidadian and Jamaican. Winner of the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers' Prize, one of the most significant for emerging writers from the region, she is also a Truman Capote, Callaloo, Juniper, REEF Residency, Cropper Foundation and Marble House fellow. Writing about race, class, and Caribbean culture, she's been published in Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, NYLON, the Huffington Post, LitHub, and Caribbean Beat, among others. She's a graduate of both the California Institute of the Arts and the University of the West Indies, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She tweets @amandacq.