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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is proud to host lactose intolerant (@lactoseintolerantnyc), an anti-clout monthly reading series featuring writers of color in NYC.
Join us for readings by Jennifer Baker, irene hsu, Benedict Nguyễn, Jasmine Reid, Tony Tulathimutte, and Ryan Lee Wong, hosted and curated by Ruth Minah Buchwald.
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Jennifer Baker is an author/editor, writing instructor, and creator of the Minorities in Publishing podcast. She’s been a recipient of NYSCA/NYFA and Queens Council on the Arts grants, a 2024 Axinn Writing Award, and was named the Publishers Weekly Star Watch SuperStar in 2019. She edited the short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018) and is the author of Forgive Me Not (2023) a 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, an NYPL 2023 Best Book for Teens, and 2023 Best of the Best by the BCALA. Her website is: jennifernbaker.com.
irene hsu is a writer and researcher based in Brooklyn. They are working on their first book EARTH INTELLIGENCE, which dismembers the u.s. war machine through a poetics of soil, sand, and islands. Their writings and conversations are homed in AAWW, Wendy’s Subway, Belladonna*, Brooklyn Rail, among others (irnhs.tumblr.com). At CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, they build media strategy against real estate propaganda and grow the narrative power of the working class immigrant tenant movement. Illustration credit to Ziyi Li.
Benedict Nguyễn is a freelance dancer, creative producer, and gym rat. She’s the author of the [redacted] work email zine nasty notes and her debut novel Hot Girls with Balls is forthcoming from Catapult in July 2025.
Jasmine Reid is a twice trans poet of flowers. She is the author of Interlocutor Goddess (Autumn House Press, forthcoming) and Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press, 2020). An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Poets House, her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is an assistant professor at NYU. Find her at reidjasmine.com.
Tony Tulathimutte is the author of the novels Private Citizens and Rejection. He’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, Playboy, The New York Times, WIRED, The New Republic, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn.
Ryan Lee Wong is author of the novel Which Side Are You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of a fifth-generation Chinese American father and a Korean immigrant mother. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center. He has organized exhibitions on the 1970s Asian American Movement.
Ruth Minah Buchwald is a Seoul-born writer, comedian, and performer from New Jersey. Her writing has been featured in ELLE, Autostraddle, Electri
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