Late Night Conversation, hosted by Emma Jacobs
Featured Guest: Lily Hoang

Purchase A Bestiary
Tonight, Emma Jacobs speaks with Lily Hoang, author of A Bestiary. A Bestiary was published in 2015 by the CSU Poetry Center, and is a collection of personal essays modelled on the Chinese Zodiac. Through fragments and fairytales, it traces the author’s tender and fraught relationships with her Vietnamese parents, her late sister, and her past lovers. In this conversation, Lily and Emma talk about emotional endurance, Chinese soap operas, fortune-telling, and chickens.
ABOUT OUR FEATURED GUEST:

Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). With Joshua Marie Wilkinson, she edited the anthology The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde. She is Director of the MFA program at New Mexico State University. She serves as Editor at Puerto del Sol and for Jaded Ibis Press.