Jan 27 2021
Live Author Event with Inez Tran

Live Author Event with Inez Tran

Presented by UCI Illuminations at Online/Virtual Space

UCI Illuminations presents Inez Tan discussing her debut fiction collection, This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone, with Amanda Hall ’21, Co-Editor-in-Chief of New Forum, UCI’s undergraduate creative writing journal.

This Is Where I Won't Be Alone follows twins from the 1990’s to a future where people access information through chips implanted in their heads, from the Singaporean heartland to London, San Francisco and the moon, these stories hold in tension the strangeness of displacement and a deep yearning for connection in their relentless search for who and what to call home.

Inez Tan is a fiction writer, poet, and educator based in southern California and Singapore. Her debut collection of short stories from Epigram Books (Singapore, London), This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone , was a #2 bestseller in Singapore (Straits Times). She currently teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.

New Forum is an undergraduate creative writing journal. They aim to highlight the unique talents of UCI’s student community through the power of poetry, prose, and art.

Admission Info

Email: illuminations@uci.edu

Dates & Times

2021/01/27 - 2021/01/27

Location Info

Online/Virtual Space