Andrea Louie

Andrea Louie is an adjunct in the Office of Public Relations at Brooklyn College and the author of a novel, Moon Cakes (Ballantine Books). She is a recipient of the 2004 Hannah S. and Samuel A. Cohn Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, a Ludwig Volgelstein Foundation grant and was short-listed for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. She is currently a member of the review panel in literature for the New York Council on the Arts and has served as a writer-in-residence for the National Book Foundation.

In addition, Andrea has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Hedgebrook and the [Fundacíon Valparáiso] in Spain. She is coeditor of Topography of War: Asian American Essays (The Asian American Writers Workshop). She has also reviewed books for The Chicago Tribune, was a newspaper reporter in Ohio and has taught creative nonfiction in the youth programs at the Hamilton-Madison Settlement House in New York City Chinatown and at The Asian American Writers Workshop.

Naming out Grief: Three Refugee Tales, Fact & Fiction

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One of the latest debates taking place on the streets and in the country’s most respected newsrooms is whether to call victims of recent the hurricane refugees. Some say that the word is insulting. It implies that the evacuees, so many of whom were people of color, are not citizens. Author Andrea Louie contends that … Read more