Join A Strange Object and McSweeney’s for a joint reading at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Featuring readings from A Strange Object authors Dalia Azim (Country of Origin), Lily Meyer (Short War, coming April 2024), and Wei Tchou (Little Seed, coming May 2024); and McSweeney’s authors Alexander Chee, Sam Sax, and Joanna Howard.
Dalia Azim’s work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Aperture, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Glimmer Train (where she received their Short Story Award for New Writers), Other Voices, Alcalde, and Sightlines, among other places. She lives in Austin, TX, where she is the manager of special projects at the Blanton Museum of Art. Previously she worked as a researcher at the Dedalus Foundation and as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Modern Art. She graduated with a dual degree in art and literature from Stanford University and grew up in Canada and Colorado.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso's story collections Little Bird (Deep Vellum, 2021) and Ice for Martians (CUNY, 2022). She lives in Washington, D.C.
Wei Tchou's essays and reporting can be found in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Oxford American, among other publications. She likes to write about food, nature, and the complications of identity. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and has an MFA from Hunter College. She lives in New York City, where she is tending a lemon tree.