LRCW Reading: Lana Lin & Diamond Sharp

Readers:

Lana Lin is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy, 2025), which was a Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus “Best of the Year” for 2025, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and is a 2026 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography. Her previous book is Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (Fordham, 2017). Her writing has been published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Portable Gray, ASAP/Journal, Millennium Film Journal, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Asian American Literary Review. She has made award-winning experimental films and collaborative mixed media art (as “Lin + Lam”) that have screened and exhibited around the world. She is the recipient of fellowships including the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and four MacDowell residencies since 1996. lanalin.com; linpluslam.com

The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy)

Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects (Fordham)

Archive, Appendix, Hoodie, Home

A New Autobiography: On Re-envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover

Book Begins with Beech

Pareidolic Cinemas (with Melissa Friedling)

Living in the Uncanny

Dream of a Keen

Vimeo channel

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Diamond Sharp is a poet and writer from Chicago. Her work has appeared in Poetry, New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and more. She is a former editor of Bandcamp Daily and Rookie and a graduate of Wellesley College. Her debut book of poetry, Super Sad Black Girl, was published in 2022.

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Event Details

Wednesday, June 24 -  Reading at 6:30PM

Off Campus at Word Virus (203 SW 9th Ave) .3 miles away from PNCA Campus, 8 Min walk. 

In person only. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!