Join fellow Columbia alumni Amy Yee for a presentation of her book Far from the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Amy discusses the context and themes of the book and reads one of two short excerpts. She’ll engage our audience in a conversational Q & A session after her presentation.

Far from the Rooftop of the World won the Chicago Writers Association’s 2024 Book of the Year award for nonfiction, as well as awards in Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year contest. The book has been featured in The Economist, Boston Globe, NPR, Here and Now, The World (PRX Radio), KQED Forum in San Francisco; Radio Free Asia; Nikkei Asia; Harvard Magazine, Tricycle Magazine's podcast, Lion's Roar, Foreword Reviews, Kirkus Reviews and more.

Amy is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia Journalism School, Wellesley College and Hunter’s MFA program in Creative Writing in New York.

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Date: Wednesday, April 23

Time: 7:00PM Central, 8:00PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific. For those in our international community the presentation starts at 12:30AM London time on April 24, 2025.

Location: Zoom Video Conference

Cost: Free

Book Purchase: Chicagoans can support a local independent bookstore, Book Cellar in Lincoln Square, that has copies remaining from selling books at the Chicago Writers Association awards ceremony in January or purchase on Amazon.

More About Amy

Amy Yee is an award-winning writer and journalist, currently a staff reporter with the Chicago Sun-Times. She was previously with Bloomberg/CityLab and the Financial Times in New York and New Delhi, India where she lived for seven years. She has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, NPR and 30+ media outlets. Amy has had four Notable Essays in the Best American Essays. She is a MacDowell and Logan Nonfiction fellow.

For her journalism, she has won three awards from the United Nations Correspondents Association; four from the South Asian Journalists Association; first place from the Association of Healthcare Journalists for analysis about reducing deaths of children; Asian American Journalists Association’s award for political reporting; Chicago Journalists Association award for best business/economics story and more.

Website: https://amyyeewrites.com/

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