"Finalist for the 2016 PEN AWARD for Debut FictionBooks may be Mayumi Saito’s greatest love and her one source of true pleasure. Forty-one years old, disenchanted wife and dutiful mother, Mayumi’s work as a librarian on a small island off the coast of New England feeds her passion for reading and provides her with many occasions for wry observations on human nature, but it does little to remedy the mundanity of her days. That is, until t ..."
"Poetry. Translated into the Chinese by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Bilingual edition. "The poems in Jennifer Tseng's RED FLOWER, WHITE FLOWER have a highly intuitive use of music, serious humor, mystery, grief, and along with grief, unguarded understanding and puzzlement, side by side. It is as if this poetry has been waiting in a room somewhere, or a river, or a forest, and now Jennifer Tseng has led us into it—I sometimes even fel ..."
The Man With My Face by JenniferTseng Paperback, 81 Pages, Published 2005 by The Asian American Writers' Workshop ISBN-13: 978-1-889876-17-7, ISBN: 1-889876-17-8
"This debut collection of poetry by Jennifer Tseng traces the immigrant's journey, one filled with distant families, sea crossings, sweet fruits, and buried violins. Whether remembering a father's "unseen clock, his well-wound mystery" or poetically re-imagining the "autobiography of an immigrant," the speaker in these poems never fails to create a sense of intimacy. Tseng's vibrant and penetrating voice urges the reader to follow her ..."
"Fiction. Winner of the 11th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, chosen by contest judge Amelia Gray. A limited edition chapbook featuring two-color letterpress covers and specialty endsheets. THE PASSION OF WOO & ISOLDE scintillates with the thrall of the unknown and the forbidden, the immigrant and the exile. In each of these twenty-four very short fictions, novelist and poet Jennifer Tseng explores the limits and lim ..."
"She addressed us equally, first Siobhan, then me, her eyes finally resting on the
smooth, green lake of the counter. “I wonder if one of you might recommend a
good novel?” As soon as her question was uttered, I lost heart. Mine indeed.
Ravaged by cowardice, tormented by my hidden conflict of interest, I looked wide
-eyed at my own hands and then at Siobhan. She cast an uncomprehending
glance in my direction and then answered with th ..."
"Mayumi e il mare della felicità è un romanzo insieme coraggioso ed elegante, affronta temi e argomenti complessi senza alcun indugio, ma riuscendo sempre a tenere le distanze da sensazionalismi, stereotipi e facili scorciatoie."