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Shawna Yang Ryan

Shawna Yang Ryan
Shawna Yang Ryan teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is the author of Water Ghosts and Green Island, a novel set in martial law era Taiwan. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Elliot Cades Emerging Writer Award from the Hawai'i Literary Arts Council.
http://www.shawnayangryan.com


On Taiwan and Refusing to Stay Silent

"If I cut my tongue free, I may find I like the taste of blood"
January 24, 2017  By Shawna Yang Ryan
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From There to Here: Five Essential Tales of Immigration

Shawna Yang Ryan on Home, Displacement, and the American Dream
February 26, 2016  By Shawna Yang Ryan
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