PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ASPEN WORDS

ABOUT Author Talk with Writer in Residence Jean Chen Ho

Genre: Author Talk

Join us for an in-person author talk featuring Jean Chen Ho, author of Fiona and Jane, in conversation with Mitzi Rapkin, host of First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing podcast at TACAW. Drinks will be for sale at the bar. A book signing will follow. 

About the Author:

Jean Chen Ho is the author of “Fiona and Jane,” named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. Her writing appears in New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Times, Georgia Review and elsewhere. She is the 2023 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Scripps College. Jean is a Kundiman fellow and has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook, I-Park Foundation, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center and others. She was a 2019-20 W.M. Keck and George & Arlene Cheng Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, where she worked on an archival project on gender and racial violence in 19th-century Los Angeles Chinatown (the subject of her next book). Jean is a board member at Kaya Press, an independent publisher of experimental writing from the Asian Pacific Islander diaspora. Born in Taiwan and raised in Southern California, she currently lives in Los Angeles.

DETAILS

• Doors open for show @ 5:30pm / Show @ 6:30pm
• SEATED SHOW | ALL AGES
• Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

Presented By: TACAW & ASPEN WORDS