Author Description

The Asian American Writers' Workshop's award-winning digital magazine, The Margins, was founded in 2012. Here, we collect twenty-five of the editors' favorite poems, short stories, essays, reportage, oral histories, interviews, and hybrid works published in The Margins in 2021. In turning attention to the writing collected here, readers find lessons on how to relate to the past, to the body, to grief, to safety, and to struggle.AAWW's award-winning magazine, The Margins, imagines a vibrant, nuanced, multiracial, and transnational Asian America through original poetry, fiction, experimental and hybrid-genre work, creative nonfiction, reportage, critical essays, translations, and interviews. The Margins is a recipient of the Whiting Foundation's Literary Magazine Prize.