David Mura, 36th Annual Literary Festival

David Mura

Document Type

Featured Participant

Festival Date

10-10-2013

Location

Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Center for the Performing Arts

Author/Artist Bio

David Mura is a poet, writer, critic and performance artist. A Sansei or third-generation Japanese American, Mura has written two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award and was listed in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year; and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity (1996). His novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (2008) was a finalist in several contests. Mura's newest poetry collection is The Last Incantations (2013) and joins Angels for the Burning: The Colors of Desire, which won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and After We Lost Our Way, 1989 National Poetry Series Contest winner.

Description

Mura read on Thursday, October 10th, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

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