“Winter Recipes” is a seasonal reading curated by Accent Society and NüVoices. Featuring a stellar lineup of female creators from various cultural backgrounds, it offers sneak peeks into some of the most exciting projects they are working on. Each performer will read 5-6 minutes from their work in progress and have a mini Q&A around their inspiration and process. Curated by Megan Cattel, Na Zhong, and Jiaoyang Li, the reading features Hannah Bae, Mary Wang, Ge Gao, Emily Xueni Jin, and Na Zhong.

Hannah Bae

is a freelance journalist and nonfiction writer who is at work on a memoir about family estrangement and mental illness. She is the 2020 nonfiction winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She was a 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and a 2019 Open City fellow in narrative nonfiction at AAWW. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in books including "Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing and Changing" (Simon & Schuster, 2022).

Mary Wang

is a writer and editor based in New York. She’s working on a novel about an Asian supermodel whose career implodes as it becomes clear she might not be so Asian after all. A 2021-2022 Emerging Writers’ Fellow, she’s also working on a collection of ghost stories about the displaced, alienated, and others who can’t find a home in modern society. One of her stories, “The Child Is A Mother Too”, was a finalist for the 2020 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize.

Ge Gao

is a Chinese writer based in New York City. She received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Longreads, Hypocrite Reader, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She received residencies and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Sundress Academy for the Arts, amon others. Her essays have been named Notable in The Best American Essays 2020 and awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in 2021. In 2020, she was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Nonfiction.

Emily Xueni Jin

(she/her) is an essayist and science fiction and fantasy translator, translating both from Chinese to English and the other way around. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2017, and she is currently a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University. She is one of the core members of the Clarkesworld-Storycom collaborative project on publishing English translation of Chinese science fiction. Her most recent Chinese to English translations can be found in "The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories".

Na Zhong

is a fiction writer, literary translator, and cultural podcaster based in New York. A Pushcart nominee and 2021-2022 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, she has published with Guernica, Carve, Lit Hub, The Margins, The Millions, among others. She is at work on two novels