Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California: Kaya Press Hosts Spooky Salon on October 28, with Taiwanese American Writer Ed Lin as Featured Reader
Kaya Press, an Asian American literary publisher in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, held a Halloween-season Spooky Salon on October 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 2133 Park Drive in Los Angeles, inviting readers to bring their scariest writing to share. Food and drink were provided.
The featured readers were Taiwanese American writer Ed Lin and writer Kate Maruyama. The organizers said writing prompts would be shared as the event approached, and participants could share scary writing of any genre or write something new from the prompts.
Lin, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His books include a mystery trilogy set in New York's Chinatown in the 1970s, This Is a Bust, Snakes Can't Run and One Red Bastard, and the Taipei-based mystery Ghost Month. His first young adult novel, David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, was also published by Kaya Press.
Maruyama is the author of Alterations, The Collective, Bleak Houses and Harrowgate. Her novella Family Solstice was named Best Fiction Book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Magazine. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a winner of the Uncharted Short Story Prize.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 洛杉矶市政厅 / Los Angeles City Hall
