Asian American Writers Workshop | In Celebration: BIANCA Book Launch with Eugenia Leigh and Tarfia Faizullah @AAWWNYC | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Join us as we celebrate Eugenia Leigh’s latest and universally lauded poetry collection, BIANCA, a book that documents and confronts living in the throes of mental illness, complex trauma, and straddles the emotional spheres that orbit each other. Eugenia will be joined by powerhouse poet Tarfia Faizullah.
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two poetry collections, Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Poems from Bianca received Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize and have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, and the Best of the Net anthology. Her essays have appeared in TIME, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Eugenia received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as the Valentines Editor at Honey Literary.
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf 2018) and Seam (SIU 2014. Her writing appears widely in the US and abroad, is translated into several languages, and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Tarfia lives in Dallas, TX.
This event will be captioned and ASL interpretation is provided by Pro Bono ASL.
Event Image Description: Atop a curved background of three different shades of pink and a bright yellow curved line is black bold text that reads “IN CELEBRATION OF BIANCA, BOOK LAUNCH WITH EUGENIA LEIGH AND TARFIA FAIZULLAH, MAY 10, 8PM ET ONLINE, ASL AND AUTO CAPTIONING PROVIDED, RSVP AT AAWW.ORG/EVENTS.” To the left hand side of the text is the cover of Bianca which features a human figure with dark straight hair blowing in the wind. The body is covered in small pink pieces of paper that are blowing toward them. There are pink pieces of paper in the air and on the floor. The text reads “Bianca” is thin yellow text with Eugenia Leigh’s name in smaller text below it. At the bottom of the graphic is a white bar with AAWW’s logo in bold black text and Asian American Writers’ Workshop spelled out beside it.
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Founded in 1991, Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice.
Join us as we celebrate Eugenia Leigh’s latest and universally lauded poetry collection, BIANCA, a book that documents and confronts living in the throes of mental illness, complex trauma, and straddles the emotional spheres that orbit each other. Eugenia will be joined by powerhouse poet Tarfia Faizullah.
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two poetry collections, Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Poems from Bianca received Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize and have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, and the Best of the Net anthology. Her essays have appeared in TIME, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Eugenia received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as the Valentines Editor at Honey Literary.
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf 2018) and Seam (SIU 2014. Her writing appears widely in the US and abroad, is translated into several languages, and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Tarfia lives in Dallas, TX.
This event will be captioned and ASL interpretation is provided by Pro Bono ASL.
Event Image Description: Atop a curved background of three different shades of pink and a bright yellow curved line is black bold text that reads “IN CELEBRATION OF BIANCA, BOOK LAUNCH WITH EUGENIA LEIGH AND TARFIA FAIZULLAH, MAY 10, 8PM ET ONLINE, ASL AND AUTO CAPTIONING PROVIDED, RSVP AT AAWW.ORG/EVENTS.” To the left hand side of the text is the cover of Bianca which features a human figure with dark straight hair blowing in the wind. The body is covered in small pink pieces of paper that are blowing toward them. There are pink pieces of paper in the air and on the floor. The text reads “Bianca” is thin yellow text with Eugenia Leigh’s name in smaller text below it. At the bottom of the graphic is a white bar with AAWW’s logo in bold black text and Asian American Writers’ Workshop spelled out beside it.
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aaww.org
twitter.com/aaww
instagram.com/aaww_nyc
facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop
Founded in 1991, Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice.
