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Free Events, In-person, Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, Oregon Book Awards Author Tour
Oregon Book Awards Author Tour: Sindya Bhanoo and Eric Tran
Tue, May 23, 2023 from 6:00 pm PDT
559 NW Monroe Ave
Corvallis,
97333
Featuring Sindya Bhanoo, 2023 winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction for Seeking Fortune Elsewhere and Eric Tran, 2023 winner of the Stafford/Hall prize for Poetry for Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke.
Readings by the authors followed by a Q&A.
Presented in partnership with Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.
Sindya Bhanoo
Sindya Bhanoo is fiction writer and journalist. Her debut collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere won the New American Voices Award. In 2021, she won an O. Henry Prize. She has worked for The New York Times and The Washington Post and currently teaches creative writing and journalism at Oregon State University.
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Eric Tran
Eric Tran is a queer Vietnamese poet and the author of Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke, winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the Thom Gunn Award, and The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer. His poetry has been featured in All Things Considered, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, and has received recognition from Best of the Net, Prairie Schooner, and New Delta Review, among other publications.  He is a psychiatrist in Portland, Oregon.
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