Bonnie Tsui — Contemporary Writers Series

Presented by the Mills College at Northeastern University Literatures and Languages Department, the Contemporary Writers Series and We Are The Voices.

This event is free and open to the public, both in-person in the Mills Hall Living Room and virtually via zoom.

Zoom link will be provided day of the reading.

Registration is required.

Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and the author of American Chinatown, winner of the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her latest book, Why We Swim, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Time magazine and NPR Best Book of 2020; it is currently being translated into nine languages. Her first children’s book, Sarah and the Big Wave, about the first woman to surf Northern California’s Mavericks, was published in 2021. Her work has been recognized and supported by Harvard University, the National Press Foundation, and the Mesa Refuge.

Doors will open at 5:00pm with light snacks and drinks and the reading will begin at 5:30pm.