Hugo House is proud to announce the 2022-23
Writers in Residence and Hugo Fellows!
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Meet the 2022-23 Writers in Residence
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Ching-In Chen
Poetry
Descended from ocean dwellers, Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009) and recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry winner) as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing (speCt! Books) and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Leslie Scalapino Finalist).
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Joyce Chen
Prose
Joyce Chen is a writer, editor, and community builder who draws inspiration from many coastal cities. She has covered entertainment and human interest stories for Rolling Stone, Architectural Digest, Elle, Refinery29, the New York Daily News, and People, among others, and her creative writing credits include Poets & Writers, Lit Hub, Narratively, and Slant’d, among others. She is also the executive director of The Seventh Wave, an arts and literary nonprofit that champions art in the space of social issues.
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Meet the 2022-23 Hugo Fellows
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Lili Gu
Poetry
Lili Gu is a poet and filmmaker passionate about exploring justice, liberation, and the human condition through storytelling. She studied poetry while in engineering school at Columbia University and went on to receive her MFA in Film Production and Directing from UCLA. Her work has received numerous accolades, screening internationally and on television networks such as PBS. This will be Lili’s return to poetry.
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Ari Laurel
Fiction
Ari Laurel is a fiction writer in Seattle who writes about radicalism, orientalism, climate, and the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Passages North, Blue Mesa Review, The Conium Review, The Toast, Duende, and more. Her short story “Farewell Address to the Last Mango in the Pacific Northwest” won first place in Blue Mesa Review’s 2021 Summer Fiction contest. This story is currently part of a larger project.
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Magda Manning
Poetry
Magda Manning (they/them) is a queer writer and educator from Taos, New Mexico. They received their MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2019. They’re interested in exploring how language expands, and/or limits identity, and how it functions as a process, rather than product, of self-making. They currently work as a K1 teacher, play lots of cribbage with their mom, and live in Seattle with their partner.
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Nancy Mburu
Fiction
In my writing, I amplify the experiences and stories of East African immigrants in an authentic way that also encompasses our complex relationship with culture, traditions, language, gender dynamics, and race as black diasporans. My purpose is to tell my story as a Kenyan African and immigrant through my own lens to help others understand our experience while striving for social justice.
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Meera Vijayann
Fiction
Meera Vijayann is a writer and essayist based in Kirkland, WA. As a writer who lives with a chronic illness, she is drawn to social invisibility within South Asian diasporic cultures and her stories are anchored in mayam, the Tamil word for illusion. Her writing is shaped by the decade she spent as a development professional and journalist reporting on sexual violence in India and has appeared in Catapult, Entropy, Electric Literature, and The Guardian, among others.
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James Washburn
Playwriting/Poetry
James T. Washburn (he/him) is a gay, trans, and disabled Storyteller-Activist based in Seattle. His work is deeply inspired by his community and experiences at the intersection of identities. He is a multi-hyphenate artist, with works spanning from the immersive novella Sealed with Honey to Achilles + Patroclus, a chamber opera commissioned by the Seattle Opera. He is the Founding Artistic Director of Magpie Artists’ Ensemble.
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