Join BMI for a reading and conversation with playwright and writer Cherry Lou Sy, author of Love Can’t Feed You, with Shearing Fellow Monica Macansantos.

Cherry Lou Sy is a writer and playwright originally from the Philippines and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, where she has been an adjunct lecturer in the English and American Studies departments. Cherry is also a teacher with PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud. She has received fellowships and residencies from VONA, Tin House, and elsewhere. Love Can’t Feed You is her debut novel.

Monica Macansantos holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from the International Institute of Modern Letters at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Returning to My Father’s Kitchen, and the story collection Love and Other Rituals. Her work has been recognized as Notable in the Best American Essays 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2016. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the I-Park Foundation, and others.

This event is part of the Kwentuhan at Chikahan – Las Vegas Filipino Book Club series. The goal of the club is to read and respond to the works of critically acclaimed Filipino authors, towards finding meaning in everyday struggles and triumphs.