Saturday, September 6th
11am CT – Grace Place Stage

Jane Hseu is Professor of English at Dominican University, board member of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, and core organizer for Banyan: Asian American Writers Collective. She has published personal essays and poetry and is currently at work on a memoir about a family history of mental illness. At Dominican, she teaches racial minority US literatures and writing creative nonfiction. She regularly presents/ facilitates at venues such as the APIDA Arts Festival, Ada Cheng’s Pour One Out storytelling series, American Writers Festival, and Casa de las Americas (Cuba) in order to build community and encourage storytelling for social change.