The PEN Pod: How We Write Our Survival with Lisa Ko
“Even when the future does feel uncertain, like right now, it feels important to. . . imagine a future for ourselves as well as our characters.” More
Dear America: A Reading List
A reading list for PEN Out Loud: Dear America, an event with Jose Antonio Vargas on the burden of undocumented immigrants’ mental health in America. More
Debut Author Weike Wang Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for “Elliptical Prose” in Chemistry
Debut author Weike Wang won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award for her first novel, Chemistry (Knopf). Séan Hemingway, the grandson of Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Weike Wang… More
Announcing the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner
PEN America and the esteemed judges Chris Castellani, Geraldine Brooks, and Elizabeth Strout are thrilled to announce that Weike Wang is the winner of the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. More
Announcing the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalists
PEN America and the esteemed judges Chris Castellani, Geraldine Brooks, and Elizabeth Strout are thrilled to announce the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award finalists. More
From Newspaper Clipping to Award-Winning Novel: On Lisa Ko’s The Leavers
Ko found the seed of what would become her award-winning novel in an article detailing the charged circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Xiu Ping Jiang, a Chinese New Yorker… More
The PEN Ten with Lisa Ko
I said I wanted to be a writer, but only to myself—writers were not people who looked like me. More