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Miami Book Fair and the National Book Foundation Present: An Evening with the 2024 5 Under 35 Honorees
Vin jwenn nou pou yon evènman espesyal nan Miami ak laure yo pou 2025 nan kategori 5 anba 35 an, k ap genyen lekti ak konvèsasyon ak otè eksepsyonèl ki fèk pibliye premye woman yo: Antonia Angress (Sirens & Muses), Maya Binyam (Hangman), Zain Khalid (Brother Alive), Tyriek White (We Are a Haunting), ak Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Four Treasures of the Sky). Moderasyon pa Natalie Green, Direktè Pwogram ak Patnarya nan National Book Foundation.
Prezante an patenarya ak Miami Book Fair, Books & Books, ak 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.
Maya Binyam se otè Hangman, which was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Nouvèl Yòkè a, Pi bon ti istwa Ameriken yo, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles.
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 Se Direktè Pwogram ak Patènarya nan National Book Foundation. Anvan li te rantre nan Fondasyon an, Natalie te Manadjè Pwogram Los Angeles nan PEN America. Li gen yon bakaloreya (BA) nan Anglè ak Ekriti Kreyatif nan UCLA, epi li se yon manm komite Bookends nan Brooklyn Book Festival.
Fwa Liv Miami prezante First Draft, yon seri evènman ekriti gratis ak enfòmèl kote kominote, metye, ak kreyativite rapid rankontre nan salon vityèl tematik chak mwa kote ekriven sosyalize, pataje travay yo, epi ale ak bèl istwa.
Instructor: Antonia Angress