Category Archives: My America
In Their Own Words: Isabel Ibañez
It wasn’t until much later that I recognized why, and when I did, I embraced [...]
Jan
My America: Rigoberto González
"I believe to be American there is a passion for wanting to expand the definition [...]
Jan
In Their Own Words: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Susan Muaddi Darraj is a Palestinian-American writer who has won multiple awards for her short [...]
Jan
Immigrant Writers on Community
At a time when people around the world travel great distances to be home with [...]
Dec
My America: Amitav Ghosh
"My writing emerges from that borderland between many languages. Bengali, Italian, English. I draw on [...]
Dec
“My America” Reading List
All the books featured in My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today. We present our [...]
Dec
My America: Akwaeke Emezi
"I only belong in places I create. And that has been, I think, the most [...]
Dec
In Their Own Words: Dominic A. Pacyga
Historian Dominic A. Pacyga grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a working [...]
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Dec
My America: Edwidge Danticat
I became a writer because I grew up with storytellers, oral storytellers. Some of them [...]
Dec
In Their Own Words: Rebecca Deng
Rebecca Deng hasn’t had an easy life. Born in what is now South Sudan, her [...]
Dec