Kundiman Northern California presents as part of Lit Crawl Global 2020, “The Stories the Body Knows,” a reading featuring Shruti Swamy, Seema Yasmin, Lis P. Sipin-Gabon, and Muriel Leung as they share works navigating intergenerational trauma and inheritance, learning how to love, and knowing how to trust the body and feelings.

READERS

SHRUTI SWAMY is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body from Algonquin Books.The winner of two O. Henry Awards, her work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow.

SEEMA YASMIN is an Emmy Award-winning medical journalist, physician, Kundiman fiction fellow and author of The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man's Fight to End a Global HIV Epidemic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), and Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration and Adventure (HarperCollins, 2020). She teaches science journalism at Stanford University where she is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine.

LIS P. SIPIN-GABON [formerly published as Melissa R. Sipin] is a writer hailing from Carson, CA. They've won fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Poets & Writers, Inc., and Kundiman, and their work has been published in Washington Square Review, Guernica Magazine, and Prairie Schooner, among others. They're hard at work on a novel inspired by their great-grandmother's capture in WWII Philippines and their recovery of repressed memories as a survivor of intergenerational trauma.

MURIEL LEUNG is the author of Imagine Us, The Swarm, forthcoming from Nightboat Books and Bone Confetti, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer, her writing can be found in The Baffler, Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. She also co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective, a feminist speakers bureau. Currently, she is a Dornsife fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She is from Queens, NY.

Hosted by Kundiman NorCal Co-Chairs, Ploi Pirapokin and Michelle Lin.