Featuring: V.V. Ganeshananthan and Buki Papillon 

Moderator: Faramola Shonekan

As first-generation and second-generation immigrants, Buki Papillon and V.V. Ganeshananthan are Americans writing back to their roots (in Nigeria and Sri Lanka respectively.) In this dialogue between two exciting literary voices, a wide-ranging conversation will touch upon social and cultural change in their countries of origin and what it is like to represent and evoke people and places familiar to them but foreign to many of their readers.