McMINNVILLE – Linfield College students and faculty will have the opportunity to learn about the life and works of an award-winning poet and novelist.
Marilyn Chin will present her latest novel, “Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen,” and poetry on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library at Linfield. Chin will also visit creative writing classes to discuss their works during her visit.
Chin’s previous novels include “Rhapsody in Plain Yellow,” “Dwarf Bamboo” and “The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty.” Her newest addition, “Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen,” is a tale of two Chinese-American girls’ coming of age and the complexities of ethnic identity in America’s melting pot. Chin explores the way generational differences both hinder and enrich a deeper understanding of one’s heritage.
Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland. Her books have become Asian-American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Awards for her writing include the United Artist Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, two NEAs, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes and a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan.
Chin was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS series “The Language of Life,” and has been a guest poet at universities around the world including Beijing, Hong Kong, Manchester, Sydney and Berlin. Chin currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at San Diego State University.
The lecture is sponsored by the Linfield English Department, Office of the President and Friends of Nicholson Library. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte, college librarian, at 503-883-2517, swhyte@linfield.edu.
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