The Fall 2020 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series continues with writer, editor, and alumna Wah-Ming Chang (MFA '06) on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. EST.
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Conversations with other writers have been foundational to Wah-Ming Chang’s work, from her graduate student years through a career in the publishing industry that has taken her from a successful freelancer to the senior managing editor at Catapult. Chang will share some of the insider experiences and insights she’s gleaned, as well as her approach to the creative process, in this special session hosted by the Cornell Creative Writing Program. The evening will feature a conversation between Chang and her former professor, thesis advisor, and proofreading client, novelist Helena María Viramontes.
“This work we've committed ourselves to involves a constellation of action and inaction around writing, thinking, collaborating, and dreaming,” says Chang, who, in addition to her work at Catapult, is writing an album of fiction called Dreamstamps.
Wah-Ming Chang received an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University, and received grants in fiction from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, twice for the New York Foundation for the Arts, and other organizations. Her writing has appeared in Mississippi Review, Joyland, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She has worked in publishing for the past twenty years, and is currently the Vice President of Company Culture and Senior Managing Editor at Catapult. The Low-Key Reading Party gatherings started meeting on Zoom in March 2020. Find out more at wmcisnowhere.com.
This is the third virtual event in the Fall 2020 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: At Home, powered by eCornell. Next up in the series: Triangle Breathing: A Conversation with Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, moderated by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, on Tuesday, November 10 at 7:00 p.m. EST. For more information and ongoing updates, visit english.cornell.edu/zalaznick or email creativewriting@cornell.edu.
