Claire Stanford at PJTC

LUNAR is proud to support this event at the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center, featuring Asian Jewish author Claire Stanford! Claire's debut novel, Happy For You, features a Jewish-Japanese-American protagonist and explores themes of race, religion, and navigating a changing world with a mixed identity. A Jewish Book Council selection and New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Happy For You is described as poignant and wry.

Join us on 3/28 at 7pm for a Q&A, book signing, and dessert reception. Books will be available for purchase. This event is hosted by PJTC's Jewish Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (JEDI), and moderated by Xavier Mejia (QTalk Radio, Pasadena Media, mejia.tv). Attendance is free, and RSVPs are required. 

About Claire Stanford

Claire Stanford's fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, Third Coast, Redivider, and Tin House Flash Fridays, among other publications; her nonfiction has appeared in Lit Hub, Electric Lit, The Millions, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her work has received fellowships and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in English from UCLA. Born and raised in Berkeley, she currently lives in Reno, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her debut novel, Happy for You, was published by Viking in 2022 and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.