PEN USA, USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences and the USC Master of Professional Writing Program present CUSTOMS AND DEPARTURES: AN EVENING WITH THAI-AMERICAN WRITERS
 
Featuring readings from this country's foremost Thai-American authors:

novelist/TV writer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
playwright Prince Gomolvilas
memoirist Ira Sukrungruang
poet Pimone Triplett 

Followed by a Q&A and a Thai Food Reception

Cherry Chevapravatdumrong is the critically acclaimed author of the young adult novels, She’s So Money and Duplikate. She is also a writer and producer on Family Guy.

Prince Gomolvilas is a playwright whose plays include Big Hunk o’ Burnin’ Love, The Theory of Everything, and the stage adaptation of the Scott Heim novel, Mysterious Skin. He is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Drama, and he teaches in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoir, Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy. He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of South Florida.

Pimone Triplett is the author of three books of poems: Rumor, The Price of Light, and Ruining the Picture. She is the recipient of the Levis Poetry Prize and Hazel Hall Poetry Prize, and she is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Washington.

Thursday, June 24, 2010 @ 7:30PM
 
University of Southern California
Mark Taper Hall, THH 102
3501 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089
 
Admission: Free and open to the Public

Please RSVP: mpw@college.usc.edu

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