Ep 482: Anna Qu on her powerful memoir, ‘Made in China’

Anna Qu on her powerful memoir Made in China: a Memoir of Love and Labour and trying plotting and pantsing in your other creative pursuits. And we have 3 copies of Idol by Louise O’Neill to give away.

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Links mentioned in this episode

• WIN Idol by Louise O’Neill
• Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
• Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer

Writer in residence: Anna Qu

Anna Qu is a Chinese American writer. She writes personal essays on identity and growing up in New York as an immigrant. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Lithub, Threepenny Review, Lumina, Kartika, Kweli, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and Jezebel, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College.

Anna serves as the Nonfiction Editor at Kweli Journal, and teaches at Catapult, Monmouth University and the low res MFA program at New England College. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their cat, Momo.

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