Join me and artist Jia Sung for an interactive open studio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their Vision and Verse: Poetry and Chinese Painting exhibition. It will be held at the Astor Chinese Garden. More details TBA.
Join me at the Cork International Poetry Festival in Cork, Ireland!
I’ll be reading with the fantastic poet and novelist Fatimah Asghar. More details here.
Join me in launching NINETAILS on PUB DAY with the brilliant K. Ming Chang, at Green Apple Books in the Park in San Francisco! I’m so excited to bring this book into existence…Bay area, I hope you will join me!
Join me for a conversation about NINETAILS with the wonderful Chanel Miller at Skylight Books in Los Angeles!
Join me for an evening at Elliott Bay for a conversation on NINETAILS with my great friend the brilliant writer Jane Wong!
Join me at McNally Jackson Seaport for an evening of conversation on NINETAILS with legendary Kat Chow!
Join me at Women & Children First for a reading for NINETAILS!
Join me for a reading from NINETAILS at Harvard Bookstore!
Join me at Greedy Reads in Baltimore for Ninetails!
Join me at Loyalty Books in DC for a reading from NINETAILS.
Join me in celebrating Kundiman’s 20th year anniversary at the New Orleans Poetry Festival, with Jane Wong, Tiana Nobile, and Cathy Linh Che. Event is on Saturday, April 20th at 10AM, Cafe Istanbul.
I’ll be a part of this poetry showcase for the Southern California Poetry Festival, from Beyond Baroque, with a whole pantheon of amazing writers and poets, at Venice Beach in L.A.!
Stay tuned for dates and times: I will be doing a reading on Sunday November 19th along with Muriel Leung and others!
I’ll be reading at Princeton University’s Effron Center for the Study of America, co-hosted by Department of English and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for The Kingdom of Surfaces.
Join me for this virtual reading with Natalie Eilbert for Women and Children First (rescheduling our event from Chicago).
If I haven’t been able to catch you on tour, I hope to see you virtually!
Join us on Saturday 11/11 for a conversation with the amazing Mei Lum for The Kingdom of Surfaces! I’m so thrilled to collaborate with this amazing oldest shop in Chinatown on a window display.
Join me and C. Pam Zhang for a reading and conversation on October 7th at Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays! Event is free and open to the public.
American Art Galleries, 5th Floor
7:30–8:30 pm
Brooklyn-based writers C Pam Zhang and Sally Wen Mao discuss their new books. Written from a chef’s perspective, Zhang’s The Land of Milk and Honey is a love letter to food and delight. Mao’s The Kingdom of Surfaces examines the provenance of porcelain, silk, and pearls to frame a conversation on beauty, commodification, and empire.
Proud to be an author at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2023.
I will be on a panel on Sunday October 1st, 1PM called Haunting Testimony. Poets LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Village), Rigoberto González (To the Boy Who Was Night), Sally Wen Mao (The Kingdom of Surfaces), and Courtney Faye Taylor (Concentrate) read from their work and discuss how the poem can serve as an archive of personal and political hauntings and history. Moderated by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Academy of American Poets.
Eight poets will read for this special event at The Spur at the High Line, including Deborah Landau, Meg Fernandes, Marissa Davis, Nancy Huang, Christopher Kondrich, Francisco Marquez, R.A. Villanueva, and yours truly.
On the High Line at 30th Street and 10th Avenue
I’m very excited for the Graywolf Literary Salon in Minneapolis, where I will be in conversation with some luminaries Roger Reeves and Shannon Sanders on the topic of “Writing with Our Ghosts.”
Information and tickets can be found here. Reserve a seat fast for a sweet treat and a complimentary drink! All proceeds from the salon will go to Graywolf’s remarkable publishing program.
Join me in celebrating BETWEEN TWO MOONS, the stunning new novel by my friend Aisha Gawad, at Cafe Con Libros in Brooklyn.
Join me at Barrett Bookstore in Darien, Connecticut for a lovely reading with Deborah Kuan!
Join me for a special reading with Eugenia Leigh, Sahar Delijani, and others in Brooklyn.
Join me in Chicago celebrating OVERLAND by Natalie Eilbert and THE KINGDOM OF SURFACES at Women & Children First!
Details here!
Join me and Cathy Park Hong in a conversation on the Kingdom of Surfaces at Green Apple Books on the Park! More information in this link!
Hope to see you there!
Join me for a LAUNCH party on 8/26 Day at McSweeney’s, in the offices!
McSweeney’s and 826 Valencia raised me as a writer and it’s wonderful to come home and celebrate!
Sponsored by The Asian American Writers Workshop, please join us in Manhattan for an evening celebrating The Kingdom of Surfaces with Ricardo Maldonado!
Join me at Red Pavilion on Saturday, August 12th from 1PM to 4PM for a beautiful tea party with dim sum in celebration of The Kingdom of Surfaces!
Join me and Chen Chen at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an event for the launch of The Kingdom of Surfaces!
Information Here:
https://www.harvard.com/event/sally_wen_mao/
This event is put on by Yu and Me Books and held at Books Are Magic.
Due to the tragic fire at Yu and Me Books, we are holding this launch event at Books Are Magic on Smith Street in Brooklyn.
Featuring Cathy Linh Che!
Join us in Jersey City at Accent Sisters for a reading and launch of The Kingdom of Surfaces, with Jia Sung and Haolun Xu!
Save the date! Join the Writers Studio Reading Series on Friday, January 29 at 5 pm ET for our first reading of 2023. We will be celebrating the Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023. This free, virtual reading will feature poetry and fiction from this 47th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America published by Bill Henderson. Four of the many poets, fictions writers, and essayists featured in this anthology will read Pushcart Prize-winning work, including Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, Sally Wen Mao, Bennet Sims, Elaine Hsieh Chou, Brandon Taylor, and Nancy Connors.
This free reading is open to the public. Pre-registration required. Zoom registration link to come.
Reserve your tickets for this amazing lineup of writers celebrating the end of the tour for STAY TRUE by Hua Hsu, and a holiday party for Asian American Writers Workshop! I’ll be reading with luminaries Hua Hsu, Jia Tolentino, Ila Kumar, Julianne Shepherd, Vinson Cunningham, Esther Wang, Peter L'Official, Amitava Kumar, Mary H. K. Choi, and Dapwell.
More information can be found at this link.
Sally Wen Mao, Poet & Author
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