Award-Winning Author Kathryn Ma to Speak at Cal State East Bay Feb. 25
- February 12, 2015
Kathryn Ma, highly acclaimed, award-winning author of “The Year She Left Us,” will give a free, public reading at Cal State East Bay at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the University Library Biella Room.
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Ma was born and raised in Pennsylvania and moved to the Bay Area in the seventh grade.
Her short stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and numerous other prominent literary journals.
Ma was a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and has taught in the MFA of creative writing programs at the University of Oregon and Saint Mary’s College.
Her short story collection “All That Work and Still No Boys” won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. The book was also named a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Discoveries Book. Ma received the David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction and was named a San Francisco Public Library Laureate.
Her recent critically acclaimed book, “The Year She Left Us,” is the author’s first novel, and was named an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times.
Ma earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction and a master’s degree in history from Stanford University. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from UC Berkeley and practiced law for several years in San Francisco.
Ma’s Feb. 25 reading is part of the Cal State East Bay Department of English’s Distinguished Writers Series, and is scheduled as part of the university’s Week of Inclusive Excellence from Saturday, Feb. 21, through Friday, Feb. 27.