Uplifting Children of Immigrants' Voices (November 20 Live Streamed on YouTube)

The children of immigrants bring insights on culture and language to an Uplifting Voices series reading. Click here to watch the reading.  

Simmons Buntin is author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far; a collection of sustainable community case studies Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places; and books of poetry Bloom and Riverfall. He’s also co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. Founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org and president of Terrain Publishing, Simmons is senior director of marketing and communications at the University of Arizona’s College of Information Science and lives in Tucson.

Michael Loderstedt’s recent writings have been published in Pinesong (Lader Award 2025), Crayfish Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Muleskinner Journal, Kakalak and the NC Literary Review (Applewhite Poetry Prize 2021). His debut book of poetry Why We Fished received the silver medal from the UK Poetry Book Awards 2023.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of four nonfiction books This Jade World, Buddha’s Dog & other mediations, Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy; the short story collection The Melting Season; and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College.