OLLU Social Justice Reading Series: A reading by Matthew Salesses

Salesses is the author of the novel “The Hundred-Year Flood,” an Amazon Bestseller, Best Book of September, and Kindle First pick; an “Adoptive Families” Best Book of 2015; a “Millions” Most Anticipated of 2015; a “Thought Catalog” Essential Contemporary Book by an Asian American Writer; and a Best Book of the season at “Buzzfeed,” “Refinery29,” and “Gawker,” among others.

His previous books and chapbooks include “I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying” (Civil Coping Mechanisms), “Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity” (Thought Catalog Books), and “The Last Repatriate” (Nouvella).

Salesses was adopted from Korea and has written about race, adoption and family for the “New York Times Motherlode” blog, “The Good Men Project,” “The Rumpus,” “Hyphen Magazine,” and elsewhere.

He has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, “Glimmer Train,” “Mid-American Review,” “[PANK],” “HTMLGIANT,” “IMPAC,” “Inprint,” and elsewhere. In 2015, he was named one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers by “Buzzfeed.”