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Hyphen (magazine)
''Hyphen'' is an American print and online magazine, founded in 2002 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area journalists, activists, and artists including Melissa Hung, a former reporter for the ''Houston Press'' and ''East Bay Express''; Claire Light, former executive director at Kearny Street Workshop; Yuki Tessitore, of ''Mother Jones Magazine, Mother Jones; ''Mia Nakano, photojournalist; filmmaker Jennifer Huang; Stefanie Liang, a graphic designer from ''Red Herring magazine''; journalist Bernice Yeung; and Christopher Fan, now a professor of English and Asian American Studies. Its advisory board included notable Asian American journalists such as Helen Zia and Nguyen Qui Duc, the host of ''Pacific Time (radio show), Pacific Time''. The first issue was released in June 2003. ''Hyphen'' was one of several Asian American media ventures created in the wake of ''A Magazines demise. Shortly after its release, the publication was sharply criticized by ''AsianWeek'' columnist Emil Gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans with ancestry from the continent of Asia (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau denotes a racial category that includes people with origins or ancestry from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. It excludes people with ethnic origins from West Asia, who were historically classified as 'white' and will be categorized as Middle Eastern Americans starting from the 2030 census. Central Asian ancestries (including Afghan, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, and Uzbek) were previously not included in any racial category but have been designated as "Asian" as of 2024. The "Asian" census category includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utne Reader
''Utne Reader'' (also known as ''Utne''; , ) is a digital digest that collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment, generally from alternative media sources including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and DVDs. The magazine's writers and editors contribute book, film, and music reviews and original articles that tend to focus on emerging cultural trends. The magazine's website produces ten blogs covering politics, environment, media, spirituality, science and technology, great writing, and the arts. The publication takes its name from founder Eric Utne. Eric Utne's surname is ultimately derived from the Norwegian village of Utne, which loosely translates as "far out". History The magazine was founded in 1984 by Eric Utne as the ''Utne Reader''. Its tagline was "the best of the alternative press". For its first 20 years Jay Walljasper was editor; Julie Ristau was its publisher. During these years it was transformed "from a tiny New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington, DC
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and Federal district of the United States, federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. It was named after George Washington, the first president of the United States. The district is named for Columbia (personification), Columbia, the female National personification, personification of the nation. The Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution in 1789 called for the creation of a federal district under District of Columbia home rule, exclusive jurisdiction of the United States Congress, U.S. Congress. As such, Washington, D.C., is not part of any U.S. state, state, and is not one itself. The Residence Act, adopted on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of the Capital districts and territories, capital district along the Potomac River. The city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian American Action Fund
The Asian American Action Fund (AAAFund) is an American Democratic political action committee founded in 1999. AAAFund's goal is to increase the voice of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in every level of local, state and federal government in the United States. Specifically, AAAFund addresses the under-representation of AAPIs by organizing campaign volunteers, campaign contributions, technical support, and logistics for both endorsed and un-endorsed candidates running for political office. AAAFund has regional chapters in Northern California, Chicago, Northern Virginia/Maryland/District of Columbia, Southern Ohio, Georgia, and New York City as well as a young professional chapter. AAAFund receives financial support from foundations, corporations, individuals, and fundraisers. AAAF receives no government funds. History In October 2007, AAAF Board members Gautam Dutta and Caroline Fan started its blog. On May 31, 2008, the DNC awarded the AAAF blog team press cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Ferrell
Shana Monica Ferrell (born November 8, 1975) is an American poet and fiction writer. In 2007, she was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for her debut book of poems, ''Beasts for the Chase''. Her novel, ''The Answer Is Always Yes,'' was published by Random House in 2008. Her third book, a poetry collection entitled ''You Darling Thing'', was published by Four Way Books in 2018 and was named a New & Noteworthy selection by ''The New York Times''. It became a finalist for the Believer Book Award in Poetry and for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Early life and education Ferrell was born in New Delhi, India to a Punjabi mother and an American father. She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University's School of the Arts and is married to poet and editor Michael Dumanis. Currently, she is the Doris and Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College (SUNY). Career Ferrell won the "Discovery"/''The Nation'' prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Truong
Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, '' The Book of Salt'', was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. It was a national bestseller, and was awarded the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award. She has also written ''Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose'', along with Barbara Tran and Luu Truong Khoi, and numerous essays and works of short fiction. Early life and education Truong was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. In 1975, at the age of six, Truong and her mother left Vietnam for the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Her father, an executive for an international oil company, initially stayed behind for work but left the country after the fall of Saigon. The family lived in North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. Truong arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Career Chee's short fiction appeared in the anthologies ''Best American Erotica 2007, A Fictional History of the US (With Huge Chunks Missing), Men on Men 2000'', ''His 3,'' and his personal essays in'' Out, From Boys To Men, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us, The M Word,'' and ''The Man I Might Become.'' His essay "I, Reader" was selected for inclusion in the Notable Essays list of the 2011 edition of the ''Best American Essays'', and his essay "Girl," was included in '' Best American Essays 2016.'' His short stories and essays have also appeared in magazines and journals such as ''The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, Guernica,'' NPR. Chee's poetry has appeared in '' Barrow Street'', ''LIT'', ''Interview'', the '' J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li (Chinese: 李翊雲 - ''Li Yiyun'') (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor who has lived and worked in the United States since entering graduate school. She writes exclusively in English. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for '' A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'', the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for ''Where Reasons End,'' and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for '' The Book of Goose''. Her short story collection ''Wednesday's Child'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary magazine '' A Public Space''. Biography Li was born and raised in Beijing, China. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked as a nuclear physicist. In ''Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life'', Li recounts moments from her early life, including the abuse by her mother. In 1991, Li fulfilled a compulsory year of se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour ( Persian: پوروچیستا خاکپور, born January 17, 1978) is an Iranian American novelist, essayist, and journalist. A refugee from Iran whose family fled the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution, Khakpour grew up in the Greater Los Angeles area before moving to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of five books, including her 2007 debut novel '' Sons and Other Flammable Objects''. Her nonfiction essays have been published in ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', '' Guernica'', CNN, ''The Paris Review'', ''Slate'', ''Elle'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Wall Street Journal''. Early life Khakpour was born on January 17, 1978, in Tehran, Iran. Her first name, Porochista, is of ancient Zoroastrian origin and derives from “Pourucista”, one of Zarathustra’s daughters. Her parents, Manijeh and Asha Khakpour, met while working together at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Manijeh is an account ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Tau
Timothy Tau (born Timothy Tau Hsieh ( ); traditional Chinese: 謝韜; pinyin: ''Xiè Tāo'') is a Taiwanese-American writer, engineer, attorney, law professor and filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 ''Hyphen'' Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of ''Hyphen'' magazine, Issue No. 24, the "Survival Issue." Tau also won Second Prize in the 2010 ''Playboy'' College Fiction Contest for his short story, "Land of Origin" (see the October 2010 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine). He has also directed a number of short films and music videos that have screened at various film festivals worldwide and on YouTube. Early life and education Tau was born as Timothy Tau Hsieh in Torrance, California, to a Taiwanese American family: his father, Chung-Ta Hsieh worked as an electrical engineer while his mother Kuei-Chen Hsieh née Chang worked as a computer programmer. He also has a younger brother named Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunil Yapa
Sunil Yapa is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer and novelist. Yapa won the 2010 ''Hyphen'' Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story, "Pilgrims (What is Lost and You Cannot Regain)," which is also published in the Fall 2010 issue of ''Hyphen'', Issue No. 21, the "New Legacy Issue." His debut novel, ''Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist'' (2016) was released on January 12, 2016 by Lee Boudreaux Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. Background The biracial son of a Sri Lankan father and a mother from Montana, Yapa grew up in central Pennsylvania and has traveled and lived in 48 US states and 35 countries, including Greece, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, China, India, London, Montreal, and New York City.Ng, supra n.1 Yapa graduated from Penn State University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economic Geography, for which he won the 2002 E.W. Miller Award for excellence in writing in the discipline. He briefly attended the University of Houston' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preeta Samarasan
Preeta Samarasan is a Malaysian author writing in English whose first novel, ''Evening Is the Whole Day'', won the Hopwood Novel Award (while she was doing her MFA at the University of Michigan), was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. A number of short stories have also appeared in different magazines; “Our House Stands in a City of Flowers” won the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest or the Asian American Writers' Workshop/Hyphen Short Story award in 2007. Life Samarasan was born in Batu Gajah. Her father was a schoolteacher in Ipoh in Malaysia, where she attended the SM (Sekolah Menengah) Convent School. In 1992, she won a United World College scholarship and went to the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico, United States. After graduating in 1994, she went to Hamilton College, and then joined the Ph.D. program in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
