Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota Author’

• Daring to Nurture Untold Stories interview by Anne Winkler-Morey

  Date: 2019.12.07 | Category: Interviews, Reading Events and Other News | Response: 0

  http://turtleroad.org/2019/10/03/sherry-quan-lee-daring-to-nurture-untold-stories/

  click on link for complete interview

  

  “Essential Mentors, Organizations and Grassroots publications

  There were so few mentors for writers of color in the Twin Cities back then. I was fortunate to meet Carolyn Holbrook andDavid Mura.

  Carolyn had created SASE the Write Place to address the fact that The Loft— where she was the Director for five years– was not diverse at that time. People of color needed a place to write, read, and publish their work.  SASE had readings almost every night at places all over the Twin Cities. I curated events at Black Bear Crossing and Patrick’s Cabaret. The curators would choose people in the neighborhood to read. They would get paid $25 a night, which was unheard of–for writers to get paid to read their work. In 2006, SASE merged with Intermedia Arts, which worked for a time, until they decided to drop it. Now Intermedia Arts is gone too.

  Carolyn was deeply committed to mentoring, and her influence was far reaching. I thanked her recently for including my work when she edited the Drum Voices Review in 2000. She reminded me that I nominated her for the Kay Sexton Award, and she became the first person of color to win that award. Mentorship moves back and forth.

  David Mura introduced me to the Asian American Renaissance, a grassroots pan-Asian Arts movement in the mid 1990s. AAR was an umbrella for Asian artists and arts organizations. It was a revelation for me, to connect with the vast world of Asian diaspora and dancers, performers, painters, as well as writers.”

   

• Welcome New Subscribers

  Date: 2019.07.17 | Category: Assignments | Response: 0

  Welcome New Subscribers!

  A brief introduction.

  The “Love Imagined” blog is thanks to my publisher, LHP.  Its main focus is writing.  I am an author, literary editor, teacher, and mentor. My interests include:  identity, particularly mixed-race identity; autism; the 70’s (not the decade, but the numeric age that I am); and, of course, writing and all its particulars.

  My books include:

  And You Can Love Me a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD (a picture book for children and adults)

  How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse

  Love Imagined a mixed race memoir

  Sherry Quan Lee

• Oh So Wild and Oh So Beautiful

  Date: 2018.12.27 | Category: The Art of Writing | Response: 0

  What’s it like to be seventy?  2018, for me, was a year of introspection.  Check out my thoughts on Midwest Mixed:

  https://www.midwestmixed.com/community/midwest-mixed-community-spotlight-sherry-quan-lee

   

• Excerpt from How Dare We! Write

  Date: 2017.03.23 | Category: Writers Who Dare | Response: 0

  “The tinikling offers a visual explanation of how bilingual writing
  works. Like the agile dancing feet of a tinikling dancer, a bilingual
  writer’s mind is connected to her feet at all times, transferring and
  translating the beat of clapping bamboos from a hearing experience to
  a whole body experience. Living in a predominantly English-speaking
  culture means you cannot stop to think or even attempt to explain
  your actions and your meanings, or you will lose track of the dominant
  beat and find yourself caught in the thorns of misunderstanding. I can’t
  help but relate this to the spate of recent attacks on black bodies we
  have witnessed. There is never time to explain your black skin or your
  brown skin to someone intent on eradicating your black or brown
  body because he or she feels threatened by the mere sight of you. You
  have to keep dancing between the clapping bamboos of race
  perception. Those who tried, hands up or not, have ended in tragedy.
  Is this a far-fetched metaphor? If it is to you, you’ve never had to
  dance/write between bamboos.”–Marlina Gonzalez, How Dare We! Write