Darien Hsu Gee

Award-Winning Author

News

ALLEGIANCE takes the Bronze Medal in the Essay category for the 2021 IPPY Awards!

June 2, 2021

2021

  • ⏰ HAPPENING SOON: August 21, 2021: Woodhall Press Writers Conference (all day EST, registration opens June 2021) — find me here: 11:00 am EST “Panel Discussion: The Future of Writing” and 2:00 pm EST “Intro to Short Forms: Micro”
  • ⏰ HAPPENING SOON: August 10, 2021 – August 31, 2021 (4 sessions, 1:10-3:10 pm PST, registration opens mid-March): “Writing about the Women in Your Family” Writing Workshop, Hugo House
  • 🎧 Listen (August 2, 2021): Asian America Podcast with Ken Fong | Darien Hsu Gee: A Micro Essay Memoir
  • June 2, 2021: “Courtyard” featured on Poems.com as their June 2, 2021 Poetry Daily selection.
  • 📖 July – August 2021 Issue, Ke Ola Magazine | Darien Hsu Gee: Crafting Ideas into Captivating Stories by Fern Gavelek
  • 🥉 June 2021: ALLEGIANCE takes the Bronze Medal in the Essay category for the 2021 IPPY Awards
  • 🎧 Listen (May 22, 2021): Cookbook Love Podcast l  Episode 142: Being a Cookbook Writer: Interview with Writer and Friendship Bread Expert Darien Gee
  • 👩🏻‍🏫 May 11, 2021 – June 1, 2021 (4 sessions, 1:10-3:10 pm PST, SOLD OUT): “Writing about the Women in Your Family” Writing Workshop, Hugo House
  • 📖 May 7, 2021: “What to Read When You Want Subversive Remakes,” The Rumpus: “Hsu Gee ultimately makes flesh her family, her history, and her complete self. These poems are a quiet but potent antidote to the willful erasure of women’s—and especially women of color’s—histories, agency, and truth.”
  • 👩🏻‍💻 April 22, 2021 12:00 pm HST – “Where We Find Our Stories and What to Do Next: Legacy, Obligation, and Inspiration in Personal Narratives,” Brown Bag Biography, Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa
  • 👩🏻‍💻April 1, 2021 4:00 pm PST – Warwick’s Presents “Gina Barreca in Conversation with Darien Hsu Gee” via Facebook Live
  • 👩🏻‍💻WATCH THE REPLAY (and get the handouts): “Micro Memoir Webinar and Mini Workshop,” register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ao7o4wiq
  • March 22, 2021 2:00 pm HST – Q&A with Darien Hsu Gee on Facebook Live, 808 Writers
  • 📖 March 2, 2021 – Release date, “Lesson Plans 01-03: On Age Dropping, Botox, and Being an Asian-American Woman at Fifty” in Fast Funny Women: 75 Flash Essays of Flash Nonfiction, edited by Gina Barreca (Woodhall Press)
  • 👩🏻‍💻 March 1, 2021 8:00 -10:00 am EST – Darien is the Poet Laureate of the Day at The Brooklyn Rail (Zoom): “Artfare: Empowering Artists + New Ways of Discovering Art“
  • February 22, 2021 2:00 pm HST – “Inside the Writers Studio: A Conversation and Q&A with Darien Hsu Gee,” Hawaii Writers Guild on YouTube Live
  • 👩🏻‍💻 Darien interviewed on JaneFriedman.com on creative pivots, starting over, and crafting a literary life (January 19, 2021)

2020

  • 👏🏼 Review: Allegiance in SmokeLong Quarterly: “An elegant emotional truth.” (December 28, 2020)
  • 🎧 Darien featured on Hawaiʻi Public Radio, “The Conversation,” reading from Allegiance and talking about family ties, estrangement, and reconnection (December 17, 2020)
  • 🎧 Darien interviewed on Hawaiʻi Public Radio, “The Conversation,” about launching her micro memoir writing and hybrid publishing program, Haliʻa Aloha, and a new way of telling stories (December 15, 2020)
  • 📖 “Darien Hsu Gee: Making the Most Out of Micro” on creative pivots, reconnection, and writing small. Author spotlight in Writer’s Digest
  • 📖 “Providence” (from Allegiance) appears in The Common: “I know the many names one can be called.”
  • 🎧 Darien in a Salon Exclusive podcast episode on Damian Barr’s Literary Salon (UK)
  • 📖 Allegiance excerpted in HYPHEN: Asian American Unbridged: “[A] gorgeous narrative of Asian diasporic experiences.” –Grace Jahng Lee, Nonfiction Editor
  • 🎧 Listen: Darien reads from Allegiance and Other Small Histories, talks about writing and family secrets, and shares a playlist that includes the music that inspired her, at It’s Lit with PHDJ.
  • 🎧 Listen: Darien in conversation with Brad Listi on the popular literary podcast of OTHERPPL
  • 📖 Darien Hsu Gee on “Afterlife,” In Their Own Words, Poetry Society of America
  • 👏🏼 Review: “Taut and lyrical.” —Kirkus Reviews
  • 👏🏼 Review: “Arresting…this poignant, poetic memoir will draw readers in.” –Editor’s Pick, BookLife (Publisher’s Weekly)
  • November 13, 2020, 6:00 – 7:30 PM EST – (ZOOM) Darien is a featured guest for Friday Night salon with GIRLS WRITE NOW – “Amplifying Our Truth by Writing Micro Narratives” (includes three live writing prompts) – watch the full archive
  • November 12, 2020, 6:30 PM EST – Reading (ZOOM): Pacific Lutheran University
  • 📸 November 11, 2020 – November 17, 2020 – Author-in-residence on Instagram for the Chicago Review of Books, @chicagorevbooks @darienhsugee
  • October 26, 2020, 6:30 PM EST – Reading and Discussion (ZOOM): School of Humanities, Purchase College, SUNY
  • 📸 August 11, 2020 – Interview and conversation with David LeGere, publisher at Woodhall Press on writing, Fast Funny Women, and writing micro: PUBLISH THIS! (Instagram)
  • 2020 Pushcart Prize nomination, “A Great Grandmother, Name Unknown,” New Delta Review

2019

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