Author: Kirstin Chen, Vanessa Hua and Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2022-08-09

A not-to-miss conversation between these three amazing women writers. 
 
Kirsten Chen is the award-winning, best-selling author of three novels. Her second novel, Bury What We Cannot Take, was named a best book of the season by Electric Literature, The Millions, The Rumpus, Harper’s Bazaar, and InStyle. It was also shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. Her debut novel, Soy Sauce for Beginners, was an Amazon bestseller and an Oprah Magazine editors’ pick.  Chen has received fellowships and awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program, Sewanee, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference among others. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Real Simple, Literary Hub, Zyzzyva and more. She lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and in Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA Program. Her latest, Counterfeit, is available now. 

 
Vanessa Hua is an award-winning, best-selling author and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her novel, A River of Stars, was named to the Washington Post and NPR’s Best Books of 2018 lists, and has been called a "marvel" by O, The Oprah Magazine, and "delightful" by The Economist. Her short story collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities,  a New York Times Editors' Choice, received an Asian/Pacific American Award in Literature and was a finalist for a California Book Award, and a New American Voices Award.  Her new novel, Forbidden City, is available now. 
 
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon and Guernica, among others. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is a Visiting Writer at Saint Mary’s College. Her new book, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: a Memoir, about her grandfather, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds, is available now.