Alumnae Engagement
BORIS DRALYUK & YE CHUN
Location
Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Memorial Hall, Studio Theater601 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
- Free food
- Open to the public
BORIS DRALYUK & YE CHUN
Thursday, March 20, 6:00 PM, PBK Hall Studio Theatre, Free Reception & Book Sale to Follow
ABOUT BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems and the translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, and other authors. His work has appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere, and he is the recipient, most recently, of the 2022 Gregg Barrios Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and of a 2024 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa, a Tulsa Artist Fellow, and the editor in chief of Nimrod International Journal.
ABOUT YE CHUN
Ye Chun is a bilingual Chinese American writer and literary translator. Her novel, Straw Dogs of the Universe (Catapult, 2023), received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her story collection, Hao (Catapult, 2021), also longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, was named a Lit Hub’s Best Book of the Year. She has also published two poetry collections, a novel in Chinese, as well as four volumes of translations. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, she is an associate professor at Providence College and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Sponsored by: W&M Creative Writing Program