Thursday, February 16, 2017

February 25th Readings: Angie Chuang, J. M. Tyree, and Sara Lautman

Angie Chuang is an author and educator from Washington, D.C. Her debut memoir, The Four Words for Home, was published by Willow Books in 2014 as the winner of the Willow Books Literature Awards Grand Prize in Prose. The book won the Independent Publishers Award Bronze Medal for Multicultural Nonfiction and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Prize and the International Rubery Award. Angie's literary nonfiction has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Asian American Literary Review, Vela, and several editions of The Best Women's Travel Writing. She is an associate professor of journalism at the American University School of Communication.

J. M. Tyree is the author of Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London (Stanford University Press) and Our Secret Life in the Movies (coauthor Michael McGriff, A Strange Object), which was selected as a Best Book of 2014 by NPR. He is the Nonfiction Editor of New England Review and Distinguished Visiting Professor at VCUarts.






Sara Lautman's drawings have been published by The New Yorker, Jezebel, The Awl, Tablet, Mad Magazine, and The Pitchfork Review, and featured by The Believer and NPR. Her second most recent book of comics essays and stories, The Ultimate Laugh, was published by Tinto Press in 2016 and nominated for an Ignatz award. She is currently at work on a new collection, to be published by Birdcage Bottom Books in Spring 2017. Lautman is comics editor at Okey-Panky, the flash and experimental arm of Electric Literature, and a faculty member at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.