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Local Author Aimee Phan: Debut Young Adult Novel “The Lost Queen”

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Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
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Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore | 2904 College Avenue Berkeley, CA
East Bay

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Local Berkeley author AIMEE PHAN comes to the store to launch her debut novel for young adults The Lost Queen. Aimee will be joined in conversation by VANESSA HUA and will sign copies of her book after the presentation.
A heroine like no other, ancient magic unleashed, a fated epic battle–the first book in an enchanting young adult fantasy duology inspired by Vietnamese lore, weaving magic, sisterhood, and self-discovery.
AIMEE PHAN was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her BA in English from UCLA and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of two books for adults, We Should Never Meet: Stories and the novel The Reeducation of Cherry Truong. She has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, MacDowell Colony, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Djerassi and Hedgebrook. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, USA Today and CNN.com among other publications. Aimee teaches as an associate professor in writing and literature at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and resides in Berkeley, California with her family.
VANESSA HUA is the author of the national bestsellers A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Steinbeck Fellowship, as well as honors from the de Groot Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists, and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. She was a finalist for the California Book Award, Northern California Book Award, and New American Voices Award. Previously, she was an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She is a Visiting Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California and also teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and elsewhere. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. Her novel, El Nido, is forthcoming.

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Cost: FREE*
*This event is FREE but we ask for eventbrite.com registration to ensure seating.
Categories: In Person, Kids & Families, Lectures & Workshops, Literature, Other
Address: 2904 College Avenue Berkeley, CA