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A Special Literary Salon with Maxine Hong Kingston and Andrew Lam in Berkeley
June 14 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm PDT
Free
We are pleased to invite you to a literary salon in Berkeley featuring celebrated authors Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior, Knopf, 1976) and Andrew Lam (Stories from the Edge of the Sea, Red Hen Press, 2025).
In addition to an inspiring conversation among these authors and Red Hen Press publisher, Kate Gale, you’ll enjoy delicious food and summer refreshments.
We hope you’ll join us for a celebration of literature and small press publishing! Please RSVP below to save your seat for this special event. We will be in touch by email with the event address soon after.
Date: Saturday, June 14
Time: 2:30p.m.– 4:30p.m.
Location: Private Residence, Berkeley, CA 94703 (address provided upon RSVP)
If you have any questions, please contact Brooke at brooke.erdmann@redhen.org
Maxine Hong Kingston, daughter of Chinese immigrants, is a literary pioneer, poet, memoirist, and fiction writer. She is the author of numerous nonfiction books including National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and National Book Award-winner China Men (1980). She also edited the anthology Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), compiled from the work of participants in the therapeutic poetry workshops she has led for more than 500 veterans of war. Her honors include the National Medal of Arts (presented by former President Barack Obama), the National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Humanities Medal (presented by former President Bill Clinton), the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award in Literature, the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the title Living Treasure of Hawaii. She is a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland, California.
Andrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was 11 years old. He attended UC Berkeley, studying biochemistry, but abandoned plans for medical school after graduation. He entered the creative writing program at San Francisco State University instead. While still in school, he began writing for Pacific News Service and in 1993 won the Outstanding Young Journalist Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has written for many newspapers and magazines since, including National Geographic Traveler, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Nation. A regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for over seven years, Lam is the author of four books and has won the PEN Open Book Award, the Josephine Miles Literary Award, and many others. In 2004 a PBS documentary about his life called, My Journey Home, in which a film crew followed him back to Vietnam, was aired nationwide. Lam has lectured at many universities and colleges and taught as a writer-in-residence at San Jose State University from 2015 to 2016.
“Andrew Lam might’ve entitled this book War and Love, so universal and personal are his stories. I promise you: read Stories from the Edge of the Sea, and you will receive gifts of wonder and grief, shock and delight.”
—Maxine Hong Kingston