Edward Gunawan is a multi-genre writer and literary translator based in the East Bay, CA. A queer Indonesian-born Chinese immigrant, they are the author of two chapbooks–most recently the Start a Riot! Prize-winning The Way Back (Foglifter Press, 2022) and recipient of the Gabo Prize in Literary Translation and Multilingual Texts from the journal Lunch Ticket. Edward earned their MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where they received the Distinguished Graduate Achievement Award. Their work has appeared in Asymptote, MAYDAY, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere.
2025 Writers’ Workshops
Speaker – Panel: We Will Not Disappear: Queer/Trans Voices in a Time of Backlash
