Join the two winners of our Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri of The City of Good Death and Rajiv Mohabir of Antiman for a virtual conversation “Writing Across the Diaspora,” hosted by Charis Books & More in Decatur, GA. You can order The City of Good Death in paperback and preorder Antiman (out August 16) in paperback now.

When: Thursday, August 4 at 7:30 pm EST (4:30pm PST)
Where: Virtual (Registration Required)

Participants:
Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. Her debut novel, The City of Good Death, won the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and was recently shortlisted for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (2021, Four Way Books, finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award), The Cowherd’s Son (2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His debut memoir, Antiman, won the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Currently, he is an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College.