Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series!  This week’s event features IWP Residents Nicholas Wong (Hong Kong) and Catarina Gomes (Portugal).

Nicholas Wong (poet, translator, visual artist; Hong Kong) is the author of Crevasse, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and Besiege Me, which was a finalist for the same award. He was also the winner of Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize in 2018. His poems and translations have appeared in The Missouri Review, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Griffith Review, The Georgia Review, The Massachusetts Review, Wasafiri, and World Literature Today, among others. Wong has also contributed writings to projects organized by the Manchester International Festival and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He currently teaches at the Education University of Hong Kong. His residency was made possible by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global.
Catarina Gomes (nonfiction and fiction writer; Portugal) is the author of four nonfiction books, most recently Um dedo borrado de tinta [A Finger Smudged with Ink]. Her debut novel, Terrinhas [Little Lands], received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Literary Prize, and three of her books are included in the Portuguese government’s National Reading Plan. Gomes worked as a journalist at the daily newspaper Público for nineteen years, was a two-time finalist for the Gabriel García Marquez Journalism Prize, and was awarded the King of Spain Prize in 2016. Her residency was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.