White Author Under Fire after Using Asian Pen Name

By Published on September 9, 2015

A white author is under fire after using an Asian pen name in order toย avoid rejection letters.

The newly published The Best American Poetry 2015, an esteemed literary anthology, features a poem from “Yi-Fen Chou,” the pen name of a white author named Michael Derrick Hudson.

Inside the 2015 edition, the author says that there’s a “very short answer” for his reasoning. He’s been rejected a “multitude of times” under his real name and using the Asian identity was a “successful” strategy for him.

Read the article “White Author Under Fire after Using Asian Pen Name” on independent.co.uk.

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