Emerging Writers Festival: Hua, Sax, and Scalise

Please join us for the second night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night two will feature Vanessa Hua, Sam Sax, and Mike Scalise.

Vanessa Hua is the author of the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, which received the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists’ Association. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and ZYZZYVA.

Sam Sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017), winner of The National Poetry Series. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, and The Michener Center where he served as the Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He’s a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion and his poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, and POETRY.

Mike Scalise is the author of the memoir The Brand New Catastrophe (Sarabande Books, 2017), which received the Christopher Doheny Award from the Center for Fiction. He has received fellowships Bread Loaf, Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Paris Review Daily, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York.

Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

The Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Programand the English Department.