July 19 : 8 am New York, 1 pm UK, 2 pm France, 8 pm Hong Kong, 9 pm Japan

On July 19, Ann Tashi Slater ’84 will be in conversation with Amanda Dennis '03. Ann will read from her work and talk about her writing process, as well as discuss her Tibetan American identity, dialogue across generations and borders, and how we relate to our cultures of origin as we figure out where we come from and where we’re going. Sponsored by the Princeton Club of Japan (PCJ), the Princeton Alumni Association of France (PAAF), and the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P). Register here.

Ann Tashi Slater contributes to The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Catapult, Tin House, Tricycle, and others. She speaks and teaches workshops in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, and recently finished a memoir about reconnecting with her Tibetan roots. A longtime resident of Tokyo, she is a professor of American Literature at Japan Women's University. (www.anntashislater.com)

Amanda Dennis holds a PhD from Berkeley, an MPhil in European languages from Cambridge, and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her writing has appeared in Guernica and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and she is assistant professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the American University of Paris. Her debut novel, Her Here, will be published by Bellevue Literary Press in March 2021. (www.amandadennis.net)