judges Venita Blackburn

Sep 8, 2023 | pen.org | Richard Chiem |Dantiel W. Moniz |Erica Galluscio |judges Venita Blackburn

In the coming weeks, we will feature Q&As with the contributors to this year’s Best Debut Short Stories anthology, published by Catapult. These stories were selected for the 2023 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers by judges Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz. A program evaluator at the FDA, Patrick J. Zhou lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Joy, newborn daughter Naomi, and their cat Bobby Newport. “Tàidù” was originally published in Carve Magazine.