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My favorite part of this workshop was when Stephanie put some serious question marks next to our easy acceptance of a single story structure model. If you’re ready to take a moment to have your view of your story and the way you tell it tipped gently but assuredly on its side, sign up. You’ll learn something valuable. I certainly did.

I was so excited to be in a safe creative space of Asian diaspora women, with a shared emotional foundation from which we could write our stories. Being in a class with Asian women, reading Asian authors’ texts, I was able to reach within and find a boldness in my themes and subjects that I had trouble broaching before. Each classmate had ideas that were thought-provoking and curiosity-piquing. Stephanie is a wonderful teacher that addresses the need for Asian writers to speak our truth and own our stories. I am very grateful for this experience as her student in my writing journey!

Stephanie Han is a rare jewel of a writing teacher—a jadeite, a red beryl, a tanzanite. Dr. Han’s command of writing theory, literary scholarship, and post-colonial literature makes her acutely sensitive to craft and narrative. She is an incisive, luminous, erudite thinker who is able to help writers bring out their best selves through their writing.

I always admired [Dr. Han's] fierceness.
[She] taught me to be raw and real in everything I did.

The layers behind the saying "We are all made of stories" came together for me after taking this one-hour class. With beautiful and compelling images, Stephanie shows how stories we consciously consume and unconsciously internalize shape identities and choices. Through moving personal examples, she makes a compelling case for women and others who have not been preserved in the canon to "write [ourselves] into existence." Stephanie is a generous teacher, and leads open discussions where participants at any stage in their writing lives feel welcome and heard. After taking this class, I felt inspired and energized.