Maya Khosla
PEN Oakland Books Awards: Jericho Brown, Maya Khosla, more
5 DECEMBER 2020 — saturday
The 2020 PEN Oakland Book Awards honor and celebrate the achievement and diversity of America's literary community, featuring winners of the Josephine Miles Award: Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, Sigrun Susan Lane Salt, Poems based in a dream that mollusks and bi-valves can suddenly sing, Jericho Brown, The Tradition, Maya Khosla, All the Fires of Wind and Light, Jillian Weise, Cyborg Detective, Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror, and Stephanie McCurry, Women's War; the Adelle Foley Award will be presented to Henry Dumas; the Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award will be presented to Omarosa Manigault Newman; the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Thomas Sanchez and Robert Sward, free, online via Facebook Live, 2:00-5:00 pm PST (for more information: www.oaklandlibrary.org/events/online-program/31st-annual-pen-oakland-josephine-miles-literary-awards)