A celebration of literature and community, Quiet Lightning returns to The Museum with Matthew Zapruder (William Carlos Williams Award for The Pajamaist), 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow Yiyun Li (Gold Boy, Emerald Girl), poet Norma Cole, and more.
Norma Cole's most recent book of poetry is Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. Omnidawn Press published TO BE AT MUSIC: Essays & Talks in 2010. Cole's collaboration with painter Marina Adams, Actualities, is forthcoming from Litmus Press.
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the US in 1996. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and Guardian First Book Award. Her novel, The Vagrants, was shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, her second story collection, was a finalist of Story Prize and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Li has received the Whiting Award is a Lannan Foundation Residency fellow is a 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow and is a 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.
Matthew Zapruder is a poet, translator, and editor at Wave Books. He is the author of three collections of poetry, and his book The Pajamaist won the William Carlos Williams Award. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many publications, including BOMB, Harvard Review, Paris Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Believer. He lives in the Bay Area.
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