Author Description

For over four decades, Myanmar was isolated from the international flow of communications, media and to some extent ideas. In gathering here writers who matured, come of age, were born into, and then tested the boundaries of Burmese prose and poetry, this anthology provides a much-needed sampler of a little-known literary culture. What the writers have in common is that between 1994 and 2014, they all were residents of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. There the similarities between them, and we hear a vast range of literary voices.