Keetje Kuipers is the author of three books of poems, including, Beautiful in the Mouth (BOA, 2010), winner of the A. She works and teaches at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Phelan Award, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, and the novel, A River of Stars, which O, The Oprah Magazine calls 'a marvel' and The Economist says is 'delightful.' For two decades, she has been writing, in journalism and in fiction, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Writers’ Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the Plimpton Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. He is also the author of The Dark Net (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, 2013), and The Wilding (Graywolf, 2007), as well as two books of short stories. Space-age singer-songwriter SassyBlack - who has been featured by KEXP, Pitchfork, Afropunk, and others - will perform new songs to the same theme.īenjamin Percy is the author of four novels, including The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette, 2015), a post apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga. Each event within the series takes its theme from an iconic book - those whose titles have a resonance beyond the book itself.Īward-winning fiction writer Benjamin Percy ( Red Moon, The Wilding) author and journalist Vanessa Hua, whose novel, A River of Stars, was named to the Washington Post and NPR’s “Best Books of 2018” lists and well-known local poet Keetje Kuipers, will read new work on the theme The Metamorphosis, inspired by the title of Franz Kafka’s much-loved absurdist novella.

For the 2018–19 season of Hugo Literary Series - the first in our new home - we're looking back to look forward and asking the writers and musicians to create new things from the old.

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