Milkweed Books

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. RSVP HERE.

Join us for the kickoff of our monthly Faculty/Student Reading Series, where we host a local faculty writer from the University of Minnesota's Creative Writing MFA Program and a student writer, offering a chance for emerging local writers to place their work in conversation with an established writer. For our first reading, MFA candidate K Ho will be reading with Aamina Ahmad, author of The Return of Faraz Ali.

This reading will also feature an exclusive student discount on all purchases in the bookstore, where anyone attending with a valid student ID will receive 10% off as our show of appreciation for the Twin Cities student writing community.

About the readers

K Ho is a writer and photographer from Vancouver BC, unceded Coast Salish territories. They are the winner of The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Margins by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, PRISM International, THEM lit, the Canadian National Arts Centre, and elsewhere. They are a 2018 VONA Fellow, a 2023 Tin House Fellow, and an MFA candidate in creative writing at the University of Minnesota. They live in Minneapolis, where they are working on a novel.

Aamina Ahmad, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, has received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Southern Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere; she is also the author of a play, The Dishonored. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.