Award-winning authors Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham discuss their recently released graphic novel Lunar New Year Love Story.  Coinciding around Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year, this heartwarming romantic comedy drama of cross-cultural and multi-generational dimensions revolves around themes of fate, family, grief, loss and love while blending elements of lion dancing wrapped in magical realism. 

A Q&A session, drawing demonstration, and a book signing follows the presentation.  Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Lunar New Year Love Story while supplies last. 

This program is co-sponsored by the Information Services Department and the Magazines & Newspapers Center in association with the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University. 

Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels.  He was named a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress in 2016, and advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversity.  His graphic novel American Born Chinese, a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner, has been adapted into an original series on Disney+.  His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the LA Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist.  His nonfiction graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, received an Eisner award and a Printz honor.  In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. 

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LeUyen Pham has illustrated more than one hundred books for children, including the Caldecott Honor book Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris and the bestselling Princess in Black series by Shannon and Dean Hale.  She is the co-creator, along with Shannon Hale, of the bestselling graphic memoirs Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever.  Her own books include The Bear Who Wasn’t There and Big Sister, Little Sister.  A graduate of the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, LeUyen lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. 

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