The Writing University website hosted an online chat with Australian writer and International Writing Program alum Alice Pung at 2:00 p.m. (CST) Friday, Feb. 5th. Alice discussed her experience as a resident at the IWP, her place in the international writing community, as well as other literary topics. To peruse Alice's work and read more about her literary career, visit her website: http://www.alicepung.com/

Read the archive of the discussion here:
Live Discussion with Alice Pung

Alice Pung (fiction writer, playwright, nonfiction writer; Australia) was born in Melbourne to Cambodian parents. She has published the memoir Unpolished Gem (2006), which won the Australian Book Industry Association award for Newcomer of the Year and was short-listed for numerous other awards, ;and the short story collection Growing Up Asian in Australia (2008). Her work was also included in Best Australian Short Stories 2007. A lawyer by trade, she contributes regularly to The Age. She participated in the International Writing Program courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.