Wordstock Festival 2011

BIRDS OF PARADISE author Diana Abu-Jaber has also published, most recently, ORIGIN and THE LANGUAGE OF BAKLAVA. She was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the American Book Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award and other prizes. Her writing appears in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She is frequently featured on National Public Radio. She divides her time between Coral Gables...
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Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York based writer. Born and raised in Singapore, Tan crossed the ocean at age 18 to go to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. An active member of the Asian American Journalists Association, she served on its national board for seven years, ending in 2010. Her memoir A TIGER IN THE KITCHEN is about discovering her Singaporean family by learning to cook with them. Tan has been a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine, and the...
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