Join Kathryn Ma for a talk on her debut short story collection, “All That Work and Still No Boys.” Through mainly Chinese American characters, Ma illuminates the immigrant experience and explores duty, transformation, and loss. In the title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter.

As the winner of the 2009 distinguished Iowa Short Fiction Award, Ma is the first Asian American to receive this prize in its forty year history. She lives in San Francisco with her family and is a first generation American whose parents are from Wuxi and Mengzi, China.