Join authors E.P. Tuazon and Esinam Bediako for a powerful panel on the craft and power of literary adult fiction. In conversation about their creative journeys, both writers will reflect on writing as resistance, navigating the publishing world, and claiming space in contemporary literature.
This panel will take place in the West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room.
Book signing to follow at 2:15 pm in West Hollywood Park.
Esinam Bediako is a Ghanaian American writer from Detroit. She is the author of the Ann Petry Award-winning novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024), as well as the essay/poetry chapbook Self-Talk (Porkbelly Press, 2025). You can find some of her recent work in Porter House Review, Great River Review, North American Review, and Southern Humanities Review. She has worked as a high school English teacher and administrator and currently writes and edits for the Spondylitis Association of America. Esi lives in Claremont, CA with her family.
E. P. Tuazon is a Filipino American writer from Los Angeles. His latest book, A Professional Lola, came out in 2024 with RED HEN PRESS and was selected as the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Fiction. His Forthcoming collection, Kain Tayo! (Let's Eat!) Or Forever Hold Our Piece, comes out 2027 (RED HEN PRESS). In his spare time, he likes to go to Seafood City and gossip with the crabs.