Karen Kao's guest appearances

Karen Kao

KUCI: Get the Funk Out

International Writers' Collective

Not Just Hemingway

Barack Obama

Sallie Krawcheck

Mary Higgins Clark

David Choi

Rob Paulsen

Michael Bernard Beckwith

Brad Meltzer

Kathy Najimy

Brian Scudamore

Laura Vanderkam

Eve Rodsky

Ashton Applewhite

Kate Black

Ethan Hawke

Amy Herman

OwlTail

English spoken podcastKaren was born in California to Chinese immigrants who settled in the US in the 1950’s. She’s been writing poetry since childhood and to her it was clear she would become a poet after graduating from college. Her parents thought that a particularly bad idea though so she went to law school instead and practiced law for over 25 years. In 2015 her short story Words Fly By appeared and in 2016 Cha (the Asian Literary Journal which you might have seen on the facebook page and/or Twitter feed of Not just Hemingway) published Moon Cakes. She’s the author of The Dancing girl and the Turtle which was published by Linen Press.  She's currently working on another novel and writes essaysKao lives in her bed, which is amusing in a way, and does fun-reading. The podcast focuses on“Afternoon at the Bakery”, from the collection Revenge by Japanese author Yoko Ogawa,  and Japanese writingand accessing different literary canon, foreign voices, foreign cultures.http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2369/551/ http://inkstonepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Words-Fly-By.pdf https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/yoko-ogawas-revenge

English spoken podcast Karen was born in California to Chinese immigrants who settled in the US in the 1950’s. She’s been writing poetry since childhood and to her it was clear she would become a poet after graduating from college. Her parents thought that a particularly bad idea though so she went to law school instead and practiced law for over 25 years. In 2015 her short story Words Fly By appeared and in 2016 Cha (the Asian Literary Journal which you might have seen on the facebook page and/or Twitter feed of Not just Hemingway) published Moon Cakes. She’s the author of The Dancing girl and the Turtle which was published by Linen Press. She's currently working on another novel and writes essays Kao lives in her bed, which is amusing in a way, and does fun-reading. The podcast focuses on “Afternoon at the Bakery”, from the collection Revenge by Japanese author Yoko Ogawa, and Japanese writing and accessing different literary canon, foreign voices, foreign cultures. <a href="http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2369/551/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2369/551/</a> <a href="http://inkstonepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Words-Fly-By.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://inkstonepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Words-Fly-By.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/yoko-ogawas-revenge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/yoko-ogawas-revenge</a>

This master class with Karen Kao covered how to write violence effectively, include multiple points of view, incorporate research into historical fiction without being overwhelmed by it, find a publisher and much more. Please be aware that Karen's novel contains a rape scene which is read aloud in the class.

Karen Kao Master Class Recording

Janeane Bernstein

Author Karen Kao speaks to Janeane Bernstein about her debut novel, "The Dancing Girl and the Turtle."