Fiction writer featured at writers’ workshop

The Washington Public Library's Writers' Workshop will feature a fiction writer.

Jing Jian from the Iowa Writers' Workshop will present on Friday, Oct. 30, at 10 a.m.

Jian immigrated from Wuhan, China, to Long Island, N.Y., when she was 13.

She is an Iowa Arts Fellow studying fiction writing. Before she received her bachelor of science in mathematics from MIT and worked as a software engineer.

Before Iowa, She has study writing with Junot Diaz, Bret Anthony Johnson and David Mura. She is a graduate of VONA, a multi-genre workshop for writers of color.

The program is free and open to adults and teens. The first hour will be the author presentation, and the second hour is for workshopping witers' submissions.