PEN America Emerging Voices Podcast Episode 010 The 2019 EVs

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The 2019 Emerging Voices Fellows meet for a last meal and talk to Fellowship Manager Amanda Fletcher about their experiences in EV, commenting on the impact their mentors, master classes, and professional editing sessions had on their writing. Featuring Dare Williams, Judy Choi, Anthony Hoang, T.K. Lê, and Fajer Alexander Khansa. With a cameo from little Lucian. ** Dare Williams is an HIV-positive poet, artist, and activist native to Southern California who is currently working on a poetry collection confronting the erasure of queer culture. Judy Choi lives in LA with her 11-year-old son and is currently working on a novel based on her Texas childhood. Anthony Hoang is writing a novel about a Chinese-Vietnamese family set in 1970s Vietnam and present-day America. T.K. Lê is from Westminster, California. Her current collection of poems is inspired by the Lambretta her father threw into the ocean in the hours before he left Vietnam in 1975. Fajer Alexander Khansa was born and raised in Lattakia, Syria, and Tokyo, Japan. He is working on a short story collection.