"Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir" Book Tour with Rajiv Mohabir

Rajiv Mohabir is on tour this summer and fall! We hope you will join us as we celebrate the paperback release of Rajiv’s gorgeous, award-winning memoir, Antiman, at in-person events around the country. The Winner of our 2019 Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Antiman, explores the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped Rajiv’s experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the United States. Since its publication Antiman has been receiving so much well-deserved, nonstop love:

🌟 Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
🌟 Winner of the 2021 Foreword INDIES Award for LGBTQ+ (Adult Nonfiction)
🌟 Finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award 2022
🌟 LAMBDA Literary Awards Finalist – Gay Memoir/Biography

We hope to see you at one of our in-person events to celebrate this incredible book! You can find registration info below as it becomes available:

Confirmed event dates

August 19 at 6:00 PM EST: Reading and Book Signing at Philly Aids Thriift @ Giovanni’s Room

September 7 at 7:00 pm EST: Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company with Mortada Gzar

September 15 at 7:00 pm EST: Reading at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division with Anastacia-Renee

October 26 at 7:00 EST: Reading at Glad Day Bookshop (canceled)

November 12 at 11am EST: Virtual Q and A with KhushDC

Check back for more events as they are announced!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (2021, Four Way Books, finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award), The Cowherd’s Son (2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His essays can be found in places like the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Journal, Moko Magazine, Cherry Tree, Kweli, and others, and he has a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2018. Currently he is an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. His debut memoir, Antiman, won the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.