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Writers’ Workshop graduate Sandra Lim will read from The Wilderness, which was selected by Louise Gluck for the Barnard Women Poets Prize in 2013. Lim is the author of Loveliest Grotesque, winner of the 2006 Kore Press First Book Award, chosen by Marilyn Chin. Lim is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and lives in Cambridge.

"In its stern and quiet way, Sandra Lim's The Wilderness is one of the most thrilling books of poetry I have read in many years." —Louise Gluck

Writers’ Workshop graduate James Shea will read from his new book of poetry, The Lost Novel. Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, selected for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series and named as a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Chicago Sun-Times. His translations of Japanese poetry can be found in The Iowa Review, Circumference, and Gin'yu. He currently teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University.

"Equal parts deep trouble and heavy pleasure, The Lost Novel is make-up that gets its real on at the ever-breaking mirror we call the world. Lo and behold: James Shea is the James Shea of poetry." —Graham Foust

IWP alumna Dorothy Tse will read from her collection of 13 short stories, Snow and Shadow. Dorothy Tse is at the forefront of a talented new generation of writers who are exploring issues of identity from the unique vantage point of Hong Kong. She is the founding editor of the literary magazine Fleurs des Lettres, and currently lives in Hong Kong and teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University.

“Snow and Shadow challenges the boundaries and limitations of our narrow, conventional realities and forces us to re-examine our perspective of the world . . . many will find that this enchanting collection of transformative tales will, like a shadow, follow them long after the final page.” —Amy Russell