Grace Loh Prasad
A finalist for the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series, Grace’s memoir The Translator’s Daughter was published in March 2024 by Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press. The Translator’s Daughter is about navigating linguistic, cultural, political, and generational barriers as a Taiwanese American immigrant trying to build a connection with her birthplace.
Grace writes frequently on the topics of diaspora and belonging. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Longreads, The Offing, Artsy, Hyperallergic, Catapult, Jellyfish Review, Ninth Letter, Blood Orange Review, XRAY Literary Magazine, The Manifest-Station, Barren Magazine, The Bureau Dispatch, KHÔRA, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is a contributor to the anthologies Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Identity and Coming to America; Ms. Aligned 3; and Chrysanthemum: Voices of the Taiwanese Diaspora, Vol. II, and the editor of Citizenship And Its Discontents, a folio of BIPOC writers in ANOMALY.
Grace received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, and has attended workshops at Tin House and VONA, and residencies at Hedgebrook and Ragdale. She is a member of The Writers Grotto and Seventeen Syllables, an Asian American Pacific Islander writers collective.
Portrait by JD Beltran