Sunday, September 7th
2pm CT – North Stage

Amy Yee is the author of nonfiction book Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama. It won Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year award for traditional nonfiction.

She is an award-winning journalist with the Chicago Sun-Times and previously Bloomberg/CityLab and Financial Times in India where she lived for seven years. She has written for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, NPR and 30+ media outlets.

Amy has had four Notable Essays in the Best American Essays and is a MacDowell fellow.