Featuring Mark Kyungsoo Bias, in conversation with Laetitia Keok
Saturday, October 3, 8-9 PM ET
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Moving between Korea and the United States, Minor Destructions testifies to the fractures of adoption, the intimacies of grief, and, eventually, the recovery of faith. In Mark Kyungsoo Bias’s debut, loss is not an isolated event but an ongoing condition, a residue that stains desire and stifles prayer long after the moment of rupture has passed. Bias reads from his outstanding poetic testament and speaks with Gaudy Boy editor Laetitia Keok on its writing and publication.

Born in Daegu, South Korea, Mark Kyungsoo Bias is the recipient of scholarships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, Tin House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Kundiman, and the Asheville Poetry Review. His work has been featured in Literary Hub and Winning Writers, as well as been anthologized in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, and AGNI’s digital portfolio for Asian Adoptee diaspora. He holds an MFA as well as a Graduate Film Certificate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was a REAL Fellow. He currently lives in Seoul.

Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore. Her poetry has been placed for the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry and the Oxford Poetry Prize, and is published or forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Laetitia edits for Gaudy Boy and Sine Theta Magazine.