Miami Book Fair and the National Book Foundation Present: An Evening with the 2024 5 Under 35 Honorees

Únete a nosotros para una presentación especial en Miami con los galardonados 5 Under 35 de 2025, que presenta lecturas y una conversación con autoras de ficción debutantes excepcionales: Stacie Antonia Angress (Sirens & Muses), Maya Binyam (Hangman), Zain Khalid (Brother Alive), Tyriek White (We Are a Haunting), y Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Four Treasures of the Sky). Moderado por Natalie Green, Directora de Programas y Asociaciones de la National Book Foundation.

Presentado en colaboración con Miami Book Fair, Books & Books y la National Book Foundation.

Register for an Evening with the National Book Foundation 2024 5 Under 35 Honorees

Antonia Angress, named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2024, is the author of Sirens & Muses, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and one of Glamour’s Best Books of 2022. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grantee, and a graduate of Brown and the University of Minnesota’s MFA program. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Costa Rica, she lives in Minneapolis with her family.

Zain Khalid, named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2024, is an American writer and novelist from New York. His debut novel, Brother Alive, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre, and was shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Khalid is also the recipient of the 2024 Bard Fiction Prize. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, n+1, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He is an associate editor at The Drift and a contributing editor at Bidoun.

Tyriek Rashawn White is a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of the novel, We Are a Haunting (Astra House, 2023) which won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. He was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree and has received fellowships from Callaloo Writing Workshop, New York State Writer’s Institute, and Key West Literary Seminar, among other honors. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Literary Foundation, which seeks to provide mutual aid and various resources to Black writers across the diaspora. He holds a degree in Creative Writing & Africana Studies from Pitzer College and most recently earned an MFA from the University of Mississippi.

Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese-American writer. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Apogee, Ninth Letter, Passages North, The Rumpus, HuffPost, The Cut, Catapult, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming and has received support from Kundiman, Tin House, and VONA/Voices. She was born in Changchun, China and grew up in Austin, Texas, where she currently lives. Four Treasures of the Sky is her debut.

Natalie Green es la Directora de Programas y Asociaciones en la National Book Foundation. Antes de unirse a la Fundación, Natalie fue Gerente de Programas de Los Ángeles en PEN America. Posee una licenciatura en Inglés y Escritura Creativa de UCLA, y es miembro del comité Bookends del Brooklyn Book Festival.

6:30 p.m. │ First Draft: A Literary Social with 5 Under 35 Honoree Antonia Angress

La Feria del Libro de Miami presenta "Primer Borrador", una serie de eventos de escritura gratuitos e informales donde la comunidad, el oficio y la creatividad rápida se unen en salones virtuales temáticos mensuales donde los escritores socializan, comparten su trabajo y se van con grandes historias.
Instructor: Antonia Angress