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Shawna Yang Ryan

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SHAWNA YANG RYAN is a former Fulbright scholar and the author of Water Ghosts (Penguin Press 2009) and Green Island (Knopf 2016). She is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her writing has appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Asian American Literary Review, The Rumpus, Lithub, and The Washington Post. Her work has received the Association for Asian American Studies Best Book Award in Creative Writing, the Elliot Cades Emerging Writer award, and an American Book Award. ...more

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Green Island

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Water Ghosts

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Thinking about Taiwan in the Trump Era

Some thoughts I had about Taiwan in these times:
http://lithub.com/on-taiwan-and-refus...

If you are in NY, please come to my event tomorrow 2/17 at the Asian American Writers Workshop:
http://aaww.org/curation/new-taiwanes...

or 2/18 in Brooklyn:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taiwan-i...

Both are FREE but require a reservation, so please rsvp! Read more of this blog post »
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“Maybe this is what it meant to be a citizen of a place - bonded to each other by the histories thrust upon us.”
Shawna Yang Ryan, Green Island

“We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.”
Shawna Yang Ryan, Green Island

“I understand,” she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: “The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain.” Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. “We are the mountains and rivers,” he says, impressed. “No matter what the country is called.”
Shawna Yang Ryan, Green Island

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message 1: by Jason (last edited Mar 25, 2008 09:24AM)

Jason I just saw this (below) in Publisher's Lunch. Congratulations. And more congratulations for the Northern California Book Award nomination.
Cheers,
Jason

Shawna Yang Ryan's LOCKE 1928, which weaves history and mythology around
a community of Chinese immigrants in a small California town in 1928,
exploring the lives of a beautiful young prostitute in love with the
preacher's daughter; a husband and wife mysteriously reunited after ten
years; a lovesick brothel owner who can see into the past and the
future, and the ghosts haunting them all, to Jane Fleming at Penguin
Press, at auction,
by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).




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