This book discussion and Q&A will feature Ryan Lee Wong, author of the 2024 ORI selection: "Which Side Are You On."

Ryan was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of a fifth-generation Chinese American father and a Korean immigrant mother. Ryan organized the exhibitions Serve the People at Interference Archive and Roots at Chinese American Museum, both focused on the Asian American movements of the 1970s. A Kundiman Fellow, he holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark and served on the Board of the Jerome Foundation.

He is currently the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center, which oversees Ancestral Heart Temple, a residential training center where he lived for two years. At BZC, he’s facilitated workshops on undoing patriarchy and for BIPOC practitioners and received jukai (ethical precepts) in 2019.

He writes and speaks regularly on the intersections of diaspora, Buddhism and the arts.

This event is also part of the university's Living Writers Series, organized by the Department of English and Creative Writing and has brought hundreds of writers into the campus community, from Nobel, Pulitzer and Emmy winners to new voices. The Living Writers Series is supported by the Department of English and Creative Writing and ARTSwego, and made possible by the Student Arts Fee: Visit www.oswego.edu/arts for more arts programming. Organizers are also deeply grateful to the Oswego Reading Initiative, Latino and Latin American Studies program, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, SUNY PRODiG, The River’s End Bookstore and Subnivean.