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Join Daniel Tam-Claiborne '14, a multiracial writer, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director, for a reading and conversation about his debut novel, Transplants, a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. The novel follows two young womenโ€”Lin, a Chinese university student navigating isolation and scrutiny on a rural campus, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher grappling with grief and questions of identityโ€”who form an unlikely friendship across borders.

Drawing on his five years living and working in Greater China, Tam-Claiborne centers his work around identity, belonging, and the intersections of Asian American and transnational experience, while also addressing issues of migration, race, and power.

Speakers

  • Daniel Tam-Claiborne โ€™14 (Writer, Multimedia Producer)

    Daniel Tam-Claiborne ’14

    Writer, Multimedia Producer

    Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a multiracial writer, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director. His debut novel, Transplants (Simon & Schuster, 2025), was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and longlisted for the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. He is the author of the short story collection What Never Leaves, and his writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, HuffPost, Catapult, Literary Hub, Off Assignment, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, he has also received fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Poets & Writers, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, and others. Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin College, Yale University, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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Tickets

Regular
Standard Price RMB 50
Members of Yale Community
Standard Price RMB 30

Venue

Yale Center Beijing

36th Floor, Tower B, IFC Building (Yong'anli Station, Exit C)
8 Jianguomenwai Avenue
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Beijing, China

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