Open Door Reading Series: Chia-Lun Chang, E’mon Lauren, Emily Brandt & Nilah Foster

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Chia-Lun Chang is the author of One Day We Become Whites (No, Dear/Small Anchor Press, 2016), and her work has appeared in Brooklyn Poets, Poetry Society of America, Pinwheel, Apogee, Sink Review, Poetry Project, and Asiya Wadud: Echo Exhibit. Chang has received support from Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Tofte Lake Center, Vermont Studio Center, and Poets House. She teaches contemporary Taiwanese poetry and A.I. & poetry at the Brooklyn Public Library and writes for chatbots. Born and raised in New Taipei City, Taiwan, she lives in New York City.

E’mon Lauren is a queer Scorpio, from the West and Souf side of Chicago. Lauren was named Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate, and is the author of the chapbook COMMANDO (Haymarket Books, 2017). She has been featured in Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and Vogue Magazine. She is a member of the Young Chicago Authors Teaching Artist Corps and host of her new podcast The Real Hoodwives of Chicago.

Emily Brandt is the author of the poetry collection Falsehood, as well as three chapbooks. Brandt is a co-founding editor of No, Dear, curator of the LINEAGE reading series at Wendy’s Subway, and visionary at landscape.fm. She’s of Sicilian, Polish & Ukrainian descent, and lives in Brooklyn.

Nilah Foster was named the 2020 Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago. They reign from the far south side of Chicago, sharing writing in which they interrogate their truths and invite the audience to learn along with them. Their work has seen the lights of Pitchfork Music Festival’s stage, Obama Foundation Summit, and has been published on the AIDS Foundation of Chicago website, among other platforms.

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