Meet the Writers of Houston’s Immigrant Community

• Wednesday, May 4, 2022  7:30PM – 9:30PM

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Resident: Amanda Pascali
In Residence:  April – May 2022
Residency Project: 
The Other Side: Bringing to Light the Stories of Immigrants in Houston

Join two critically acclaimed authors from Houston’s immigrant community for a Q&A, and book signing. Dr. Khawaja Azimuddin is the author of The Boy Refugee: A Memoir from a Long-Forgotten War. His book is an autobiographical story of his past as a young refugee boy in the aftermath of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The story chronicles his escape from war-ravaged Bangladesh to the relative safety of a barbed-wired internment camp in the foothills of the Himalayas, his day-to-day life as a civilian prisoner of war, and his thousand-mile, two-year-long journey back to Pakistan. Tiffany Yao is the author of the new book Glitched; a gripping science-fiction novel that features a strong female lead and powerful existentialist commentary. She incorporates her experience working in the aerospace and tech industry into her storytelling.