UPCOMING
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PAST
– October 12, 2024: Fresno Lithop. Reading with Nou Her, Yia Lee, and Maiyang Lor. Time TBA
– July 14-17, 2022: Connect and Create Retreat.
– October 22, 2021. Hmong American Ink & Stories (HAIS) presents a celebration of Mai Der Vang & “Yellow Rain”: A Reading and Q&A with Friends featuring Nou Her, Yia Lee, and Jer Xiong. Video recording forthcoming on Fresno State’s MFA YouTube channel.
– October 16, 2021. Fresno Lithop 2021. “Beyond Afterlives: Hmong Writers Marking Futurity.” Featuring Hauntie, Yia Lee, and Jer Xiong. The fourth member, Vlai Lee, unfortunately, couldn’t make it.
– September 2021. Butte College’s Diversity Speaker Series. “Emerging on the Written Page.”
-February 2020. MFA Thesis Reading along with fellow graduating writer Mariah Bosch. My thesis featured an introduction by thesis chair Mai Der Vang and I read “Blooming Lineage” and “Calling Your Name” (formerly known as “A Hmong Literacy Narrative”) from my thesis: How To Call (Back) A Name: Essays on Interloping and Returning. Video.
-March 2020. Rogue Festival with Fresno Writers Live, featuring members of Hmong American Ink & Stories.
– December 2019. “How Do I Begin? Our Voices, Our Stories: Hmong American Narratives.” Celebrate Hmong and Hmong American Ink & Stories. Fresno, CA.
– July 2019. “Cosmic Journeys: Contemporary Hmong-American Narratives.” Celebrate Hmong. Fresno, CA. Video.
– April 2019. “Word as Sanctuary: Poetry as Communal Space.” Hmong American Writers’ Circle. Merced, CA.
– March 2019. Rogue Festival with Fresno Writers Live. Fresno, CA.
– October 2018. “Words Have No Borders: A Night of Poetry & Fire.” Read with the Hmong American Writer’s Circle. 100 Thousand Poets for Change & Writers Resist Modesto. Modesto, CA.
– May 2017. “Karst Mountains Will Bloom: A Reading with Pos Moua and Friends.” Merced Cultural Center, Merced, CA.