Please join us for a book launch to celebrate the release of Gen Del Raye's debut book, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories, in conversation with poet Sun Yung Shin.

Gen Del Raye is half Japanese and was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. His writing has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, The Best Small Fictions 2017, and Best New Poets 2019. He is the recipient of a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and 2023 McKnight Artist Fellowship.

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that holds together despite everything. By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows the tenacity of relationships fractured by language and distance.

Sun Yung Shin is a multi-genre author or editor of nine books, most recently The Wet Hex, which won the Midland Authors Society Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. She lives in Minneapolis where she currently teaches with the Loft Literary Center and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, more at sunyungshin.com