• December 12, 2023
          The Moth: Mainstage in Portland
          December 21, 2023
          Slamlandia
          January 10, 2024
          Incite: Queer Writers Read
          January 18, 2024
          Slamlandia
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Bonnie Tsui

Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and the author of American Chinatown, winner of the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her latest book, Why We Swim, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Time magazine and NPR Best Book of 2020; it is currently being translated into nine languages. Her first children’s book, Sarah and the Big Wave, about the first woman to surf Northern California’s Mavericks, was published last year. Her work has been recognized and supported by Harvard University, the National Press Foundation, and the Mesa Refuge.

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