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2024 Winner of the Two Languages Book Award. Mina Khan's debut collection Night Shift in Perfect English is a tender, album-like retelling of the immigrant family post-American Dream. Drawing upon her Korean-Pakistani heritage, Khan discusses the NYC bodega in a gentrifying neighborhood, the aging body, and a rapidly deteriorating climate; Everyday violences-and the vivid joys that persevere. Mingling ghost-like family photo album with poems and fragments of a screenplay, this collection echoes history, memory, and coming-of-age in layers.

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Mina Khan is a Korean-Pakistani American poet from NYC, based currently out of Chicago. Her writing spans across nations, generations, to discuss cyclicality, violence, tenderness, and the everyday. Her work has appeared in AAWW's The Margins, Tupelo Quarterly, Epiphany Magazine, and more. Khan holds a BA from Wesleyan University, MFA from Columbia University, and is a Tin House alum. This is her debut collection.

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