AAAYA Presents: Kitchen Talk: Food Histories, Literature, and Afro-Asian Archives in the Americas

Monique Truong is a Vietnamese American novelist, essayist, and librettist. Her debut novel, The Book of Salt, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Fiction Book, a Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction, and winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards/Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and Bard Fiction Prize, among others. She followed with two more award-winning novels, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Sweetest Fruits, and all together her books have been translated into fourteen languages to date.

Tao Leigh Goffe is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, DJ, and professor who grew up between the UK and New York.  She is also Executive Director of Afro-Asia Group, an organization that centers the intersections of African and Asian diasporas, futurity, and coalition-building.  She is an assistant professor of Black studies, gender, and sexuality at Cornell University.