Join MFAW for a special conversation between novelist and editor Aube Rey Lescure and program alum Rolando Andre Lopez. Light refreshments and open to all!

Aube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American writer. She grew up between Provence, northern China, and Shanghai, and graduated from Yale University in 2015. She worked in foreign policy before becoming an itinerant writer.

Aube’s debut novel, River East, River West, was just published by William Morrow/HarperCollins. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, LitHub, Electric Literature, The Millions, WBUR, The Florida Review Online, Litro, and more. Her essay “At the Bend of the Road” was selected for Best American Essays 2022.

She currently works as the Deputy Editor at Off Assignment. Two essays she edited are anthologized in Best American Travel Writing 2021, and four others were listed in Best American Essays Notables.

Aube is the co-author of Creating a Stable Asia (Carnegie 2016) and the translator of Le Système Économique Chinois Face à ses Défis (éditions Nuvis 2017).

Rolando Andre Lopez graduated from the MFA in Writing Program at CCA in 2023. A poet, novelist, and essayist originally from Puerto Rico, he teaches in Oakland, California.