CFF Presents “A Conversation with Fiona Sze-Lorrain (‘03CC)” on Tuesday, December 15, 2026 at 12:00 P.M ET. CFF members are invited to register for this online event.

Join us for an intimate discussion with author Fiona Sze-Lorrain (‘03CC) on her debut novel, Dear Chrysanthemums. We'll talk about how cultural, political, and women histories animate her work, and how her life as a poet and musician informs her approach to writing fiction.

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, zheng harpist, and translator. Her work includes a novel-in-stories, Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023), five poetry collections, most recently Rain in Plural (Princeton, 2020) and The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016), twenty books of translation, and three coedited anthologies of international literature. She was recently awarded the 2026 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, she was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize among other honors.

Watch the book trailer for Dear Chrysanthemums. 

Her full bio and bibliography and more are available at http://www.fionasze.com/.

CFF communications director Mauricio Matiz will host the conversation.

The Zoom webinar link will be emailed to registered members a day prior to the event. The event will be recorded and made available on the CFF Video Library. 

Fiona Sze-Lorrain's books can be found at Bookshop.org.