Meet our curator!

It seems incredible, but Christina Chiu has been the Pen Parentis curator for more than five years! From the very first year she came aboard, her thoughtful decisions about which writers would work well together have resulted in fantasy trios like Marly Youmans, Lev Grossman and (MacArthur genius grant winner) Kelly Link — a literal […]

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Thanks for a successful 15th season!

We are staggered by all of the marvelous authors who read for us in our fifteenth season of Salons in Lower Manhattan. Our encore Salon on June 13, 2017, featured multiply international-bestselling author Jennifer Probst who told us stories of how she and her husband reacted after 20 years of rejection letters to receive an […]

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Curator Christina Chiu passes the baton at the 2016 Asian American Arts Alliance Gala

Pen Parentis is an organizational member of several wonderful organizations, among them the Arts and Business Council of New York and Americans for the Arts – but one of the small alliances that we are most proud to belong to is the Asian American Arts Alliance (or A4 for short) – and we were ever-so-proud […]

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New Q&A about Pen Parentis

Pen Parentis founder, M. M. De Voe, spoke candidly with Rachel Sherman of fictionwriting.about.com answering questions about many aspects of Pen Parentis’s work. Follow this link for the whole interview! Browse the website for more great writing tips from Rachel (who, incidentally, read at Pen Parentis) including one on how to be a parent and a writer at the […]

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