[This is a Virtual Ruby event]

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-British-Chinese-American writer, and the author of Harmless Like You—the winner of The Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. She is also the editor of Go Home!, a collection of writing from Asian diasporic writers. "Go home!" is always a slur, but often also an impossibility; this collection explores the words' personal and political dimensions. Starling Days, her second novel, is out in the UK and forthcoming in the USA. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. The novel is about love, Ovid, mental illness, and Japanese beer. Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart, calls it “a beautiful and profoundly moving ‘floor plan’ of what it means to live with depression and dailiness, love and death, solitude and connection.”

Rowan is generously offering manuscript consults to Ruby members. We have four 30-minute slots available (from 12 to 2 p.m.). Your manuscript can be whatever you feel most excited about or need particular help with, and should be no longer than 10 pages double-spaced. 

Thanks to Abrams, we have free galley copies of Rowan’s newest novel, Starling Days, available for Ruby members! Pick your copy up at the front desk, as long as supplies last!