Saturday, April 12, 3-5 pm
Features: Lydia Liu, Matt Reeck, Jennifer Shyue, Jacqueline Johnson
Venue: Private home in Long Island City, New York
RSVP Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org for directions 

Lydia T. Liu, an award-winning poet, is the author of The problem of deer (Finishing Line Press), a debut chapbook that explores the diasporic consciousness through the interplay of language, place, and memory.

Matt Reeck is a translator, poet, scholar. What of the Earth Was Saved, his translation from the Hindi of Leeladhar Jagoori, was published in 2024 by World Poetry. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2022, he is currently a New India Foundation Translation Fellow for Qazi Abdul Ghaffar's Urdu travelogue A Portrait of the West. 

Jennifer Shyue translates from Spanish. Her translations include Julia Wong Kcomt’s poetry collections A Blind Salmon and Vice-royal-ties, as well as Augusto Higa Oshiro’s novel The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, which received the ALTA First Translation Prize. Her work has received support from English PEN, the Fulbright Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among other places.

Jacqueline Johnson is a multi-disciplined artist creating in poetry, fiction writing and fiber arts.She is the author of A Woman's Season (Main Street Rag Press) and A Gathering of Mother Tongues (White Pine Press) and is the winner of the Third Annual White Pine Press Poetry Award. A native of Philadelphia, PA., she resides in Brooklyn, New York.