Tag Archives: American immigrants
My America: Juan Martinez
Each week, the My America blog series introduces you to one of the writers featured in our [...]
Mar
My America: Yiyun Li
Each week, the My America blog series introduces you to one of the writers featured in our [...]
Feb
My America: Laila Lalami
"I would define being an American as believing in an idea, and the idea is [...]
Feb
My America: Laila Halaby
"After 9/11 people wanted to understand, like, what are Arabs? Or they didn’t want to [...]
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Jan
“But Where Are You Really From?”
Bestselling author Julissa Arce discusses the trials and importance of writing about and for Latinx [...]
Jan
My America: Reyna Grande
For me, writing was an act of survival because it got me through all those [...]
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