Bolts of Fiction - Rita Wong

Thurs. Feb. 5 7pm
"SPIRAL-BOUND" writing group hosts the open mic. at 7:00pm and then
CHRISTINE MOORE will conduct an armchair chat with featured author,
RITA WONG, the author of "monkeypuzzle" (Press Gang Publishers, 1998).
RITA was the winner of the 1998 Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop
Emerging Writer Award for Poetry. She has worked as an archivist, as an
English teacher in China and Japan, and as a coordinator for the
Alberta/NWT Network of Immigrant Women. Her writing has appeared in
journals such as "Prairie Fire","Tessera", "West Coast Line",
"absinthe", "Contemporary Verse 2", "Fireweed"; and in anthologies such
as "The Other Woman: Women of Colour in Contemporary Canadian
Literature", "Another Way to Dance", "Millennium Messages", "Hot and
Bothered" and "Kitchen Talk". She grew up in Calgary and currently lives
in Vancouver.
"monkeypuzzle": From the intimacy of the family-owned grocery store to
the dust bowl of Gansu province, from lost language to found expression,
"monkeypuzzle" is a powerful work, one that searches deeply to lay bare
the boundaries of race and class.

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