LitHub
Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City, speaks with Jane Ciabattari on writing about the forgotten women in Mao’s inner circle.
NPR
Vanessa Hua speaks with NPR about Forbidden City, a novel about a teenage girl at the start of the Cultural Revolution in China.
A Letter from Eileen Myles
TO: PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, LT GOV. KATHY HOCHUL, INTERIOR SECRETARY DEB HAALAND…
San Francisco Chronicle
Review of Vanessa Hua’s Forbidden City, a new classic about China’s Cultural Revolution and a girl caught in it
Bookriot
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Li-Young Lee included on this list of influential Asian American literature of all time.
Forbes
Joy Harjo on being named artist-in-residence at The New Bob Dylan Center: “I remember being caught by his voice and his lyrics.”
Publishers Weekly
Check out this Q&A with acclaimed poet and educator Taylor Mali.
Oprah Daily
Elizabeth Acevedo wants young women of color to be represented tenderly and with love.
The New Yorker
Read “Sundown Walks to the Edge of the Story,” a new poem by Joy Harjo.
Newswires
UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture awarded to poet Dunya Mikhail.