Event
7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Mentor Series Reading with Vanessa Hua and Sarah Ghazal Ali

Presenters
Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (2016), winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and a finalist for the California Book Award, as well as A River of Stars (2018) and Forbidden City (2022). She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a
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Sarah Ghazal Ali
Sarah Ghazal Ali is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the author of THEOPHANIES (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. Winner of The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review
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Sook Jin Ong
Sook Jin Ong 翁淑君 (she/her) is a Malaysian Chinese poet. She writes because poetry brings her restfulness, especially as she grapples with migratory and diasporic longings, chronic migraines, and fragments of the many tongues she haltingly speaks. Sook Jin's poems have appeared in Canto Cutie , Cut
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Madeleine Wolfe
Madeleine Wolfe is a Minnesotan writer and educator who has lived and taught abroad in Israel and Malaysia. Her work explores her Jewish Midwestern identity, ancestral roots, and the connections we form with the places that define us. When not reading or scribbling in her notebooks, you can find her
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Ellen Rogers
Ellen Rogers is a poet and essayist. Her work can be found in AGNI , Cincinnati Review , Ecotone , and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University and has served as an editor for Bellingham Review and The Hopper . She works in environmental communications at a
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Location
The Loft at Open Book
Price
Regular $10.00
Friend $5.00
Graphic depicting the 5 authors reading at the Mentor Series

Join us for an inspiring evening of literature as Mentor Series writers Vanessa Hua and Sarah Ghazal Ali take the stage alongside fellows Sook Jin Ong, Madeleine Wolfe, Ellen Rogers.

The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose is one of Minnesota’s most celebrated opportunities for emerging writers—bringing twelve early-career voices into intensive mentorship with eight nationally acclaimed poets and prose writers. This event offers a first look at their work-in-progress and a chance to celebrate the future of literature in Minnesota.

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Artists
Vanessa Hua
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Sarah Ghazal Ali
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Sook Jin Ong
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Madeleine Wolfe
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Ellen Rogers
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