The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) — a series of online writer’s workshops run remotely by women writers based in America — allows Afghan women a forum to express and record their experiences in poems, essays and commentary without “the filter of their men and media.”
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In part two of this interview, novelist Jean Kwok tells us about her writing, her experience being a Chinese American, and her writing plans for the future. Kwok is the author of Girl in Translation.
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Journalist Judith Torrea’s blog, “Juárez, Under the Shadow of Drug Trafficking,” wins this year’s BOB Award for “Reporters Without Borders”, organized by Germany’s Deutsche Welle. Torrea’s blog covers drug cartel activities, government repression and police corruption in northern Mexico.
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In Knocking on the Door of… we present interviews with fellow residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside. Our first interview is with performer and teacher Barbara Russell.
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