Maxine Hong Kingston and Sean Mclain Brown
Maxine Hong-Kingston
During her distinguished career, writer and activist Maxine Hong Kingston has received many honors, including the 1997 National Humanities Medal and John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Her first book, The Woman Warrior, won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976. Her follow-up China Men won the American Book Award. She is professor emerita at University of California, Berkeley.
Sean Mclain Brown
Sean Mclain Brown enlisted in the Marine Corps at age 17. After sustaining an injury in the Gulf War, he was discharged and traveled for several years visiting almost all of the states. “Much of my writing is evidence of my distrust and disbelief in war as an option, as well as expressions of my personal experiences during and after the Gulf War,” he says. He is a two-time winner of the Mark Linenthal Poetry Award and a finalist for the Ann Fields Poetry Prize. His poetry and fiction have appeared in EM, Big Ugly Review, First Intensity, Fourteen Hills, Indiana Review, LUNA, Sentence, Transfer, Paragraph, Parthenon West, Potpourri, Sleeping Fish, Small Town and Mobius . His work is anthologized in the limited edition My America and in Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. His first book, Manufacturer’s Specifications and Guidelines, is forthcoming from Blue Barnhouse Publishing.