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Join us for an evening of contemporary Tibetan poetry and short stories with Tibetan women writers from India and China.

EMERGING VOICES: Tibetan Women Writers
Thursday, April 21st at 5pm | CU Ƶ, Humanities 250

Introduction by Nicole Willock, author of Lineages of the Literary.
Readings by Tibetan writers Tsedron Kyi, Nyima Tso, & Min Nangzey.

Ƶ the Presenters:

Tsedronkyi (ཚེ་སྒྲོན་སྐྱིད) is a short story writer from Chapcha, Amdo and teacher of Tibetan language and literature. She has published two books of collected short stories, A Melancholy Drama (སྐྱོ་སྣང་གི་ཟློས་གར། 2005) and Clinging (ཞེན།་ 2016).

Nyima Tso (ཉི་མ་འཚོ།) is a poet and short story writer from Labrang, who currently lives in Dharamshala. She has published two books of collected poems and short stories respectively: The First Journey of This Life (མི་ཚེ་འདིའི་འགྲུལ་བཞུད་ཐེངས་དང་པོ། 2003) and A Fragment (ཟུར་ཞིག Zhur zhig 2007).

Min-Nangzey (སྨིན་སྣང་མཛེས།) is an emerging poet and essayist from Golok, who currently lives in Dharamshala. She has published two books of collected poems and lyrics respectively: Princess of the Snow Mountain (གངས་རིའི་སྲས་མོ། 2006) and Songs of Emotions (ཚོར་བའི་གླུ 2015). 

Nicole Willock is Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. Her book, Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China was published last year. 

This event is hosted by the Tibet Himalaya Initiative at CU Ƶ in conjunction with the UVA Tibet Center and JLF Colorado.