Book Reading and Discussion with Local Author for AAPI Month

Local author X.H. Collins, a native of China, will read and discuss her novel Flowing Water, Falling Flowers (MWC Press, 2000) as part of the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Month celebration at the Davenport Public Library Eastern Branch on Wednesday May 22 from 6:30-7:45 pm.

Curious what Falling Water, Falling Flowers is about? ‘When she loses her job and lover in one fell swoop, art history professor Rose Ming accompanies her mother on a visit to her Chinese hometown of Three Rivers, where she solves the family mystery and unearths an unutterable tragedy of the Han, Wang, and Fang families, hidden for over a hundred years.’

X.H. Collins was born in Sichuan Province, China, grew up in Kangding on the East Tibet Plateau, and has called Iowa home since 1997. She’s a retired biology professor from Black Hawk College. She published poems in Mandarin in her native country and began writing in English in the summer of 2015. Her flash fiction and short stories have placed in local writing contests. Her short stories have appeared in the Karawane magazine, the MOON magazine and its anthology. Her essays have appeared in PastTen, the Overachiever Magazine, the London Reader, and These Interesting Times anthology. She is a regular contributor to Zibby Mag (formerly Moms Don’t Have Time to Write) and Asian Cha: A Literary Journal. She is the author of a dual-timeline novel FLOWING WATER, FALLING FLOWERS (MWC Press, 2020). Most recently, the Black Lawrence Press has selected her second novel manuscript as a finalist for their Immigrant Writing Series.

Copies of Flowing Water, Falling Flowers will be for sale at the event courtesy of the Midwest Writing Center. This program is brought to you by the Davenport Public Library and Midwest Writing Center.