Join us for a reading featuring Ruby members, Aya Bracket, Breena Nuñez, Faith Adiele, Grace Hwang Lynch, and Ruby alum, Melissa Hung!
Food brings us comfort and memories. It tells the stories of family, friends, culture, and history. Join us for a virtual event as Ruby members Aya Brackett, Breena Nuñez, Faith Adiele, Grace Hwang Lynch share tales from the table. Hosted by Melissa Hung.
This virtual event is made possible through a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Please note that a zoom link will be sent separately post-RSVP.
About Aya Brackett
Aya Brackett is a photographer based in Oakland. Aya received a Magna Cum Laude dual B.A. in Visual Arts and East Asian Studies from Brown University, and also studied photography at Rhode Island School of Design and the California College of the Arts. She has photographed cookbooks for several notable chefs, has contributed to the New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Bon Appetit, WSJ Magazine and many other publications, and has received a James Beard award for her work.
About Breena Nuñez
Breena Nuñez is a cartoonist and adjunct part-time professor living in San Francisco. She creates diary comics that often explore themes surrounding the awkwardness of racism, being a queer Afrodescendiente from the Bay Area, and understanding what it means to be Central American from the US. Their hope as a cartoonist & educator is to help BIPOC folks give themselves permission to express their personal stories through the language of comics.
About Faith Adiele
Faith Adiele writes a weekly column for Detour: Best Stories in Black Travel and Sleep Stories for the Calm app. She is author of the memoirs Meeting Faith and The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems and hosts African Book Club at MoAD. A member of the Ruby and the Writers Grotto, Faith lives in Oakland and teaches at California College of the Arts. Visit her at @meetingfaith.
About Grace Hwang Lynch
Grace Hwang Lynch is a San Francisco Bay Area based freelance writer with a focus on Asian American culture, food, and education. Her writing has been published in NPR, Tin House, Catapult, Shondaland and more. Grace is writing a memoir-in-essays about the way food often takes the place of words to bridge language and culture gaps in her Taiwanese immigrant family.
About Melissa Hung
Melissa Hung is a writer and journalist. Her essays and reported stories have appeared in Longreads, Catapult, NPR, Vogue, Pacific Standard, and Body Language (Catapult 2022). She has written about Chinatowns, comfort food, and living with chronic pain. She is the founding editor of Hyphen and the former director of San Francisco WritersCorps. She grew up in Texas, the eldest child of immigrants.
