Erika Nguyen is a senior manager in the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center, where her work focuses on cultural and linguistic rights.
Erika Nguyen
Senior Manager, PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center
Articles by Erika Nguyen
The Courage of Women Writers Preserving Ukraine’s Stories
Despite the dangers they face, Ukrainian women play an essential role in ensuring a public record of the war is created and preserved.
“Freedom to write, freedom of soul”: Aziz Isa Elkun, Uyghur PEN Centre President, on Poetry as Resistance
Aziz Isa Elkun’s work amplifies the voices of silenced Uyghur poets, preserving culture and resistance in the face of repression.
The Chinese Writer Imprisoned for Dreaming of a Beautiful China
Xu Zhiyong’s essays from A Beautiful China, which he wrote as a love letter to his country, were used as evidence against him.
