401 Dodge Hall
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race’s Asian American Diasporic Writers Series presents: Mixed-Race Literature Panel, a panel discussion on the state of mixed-race Asian American literature.
Food provided! No RSVP required; contact cser@columbia.edu with any questions.
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Conversant Bio:
Chloé Cooper Jones is a journalist and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named one of the best books of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and TIME Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, and a Howard Foundation Fellow.
Panelist Bios:
Jackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award in Prose and the author of the bestselling short story collection, Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021); the backwards NYC-based novel, Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), which was a 2022 Foreword Reviews Book of the Day; and the choose-your-own-adventure memoir, Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022), which was named a 2022 Book of the Year by The Independent Book Review, Mayday Review, and LitReactor. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Guernica, Antioch Review, ZYZZYVA, Columbia Journal, The Offing, Longreads, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Poets & Writers, and Fiction, among others.
Claire Stanford is the author of the novel Happy for You (Viking, 2022), which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and awarded the 2023 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
Alexandra Kleeman is a novelist and associate professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Kleeman is the author of Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth, 2021), a New York Times Notable Book; Intimations (Harper, 2016); and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper Collins, 2015), which won the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She has received support from the American Academy in Rome, American Academy in Berlin, and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, as well as from MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi, and Bread Loaf. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Paris Review, VOGUE, n+1, and Tin House, among others. She is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
