Accent Accent
Accent Accent
Accent Accent was founded in 2018 New York by Na Zhong and Jiaoyang Li. Initially a writing community for Chinese writers working in English, it has blossomed into an Academy offering creative writing classes and consultations, a Bookstore carrying Chinese and English literary and art books, a bilingual Publishing House discovering original, imaginative, and authentic voices, and an Art Gallery with a focus on multidisciplinary art.
All our projects are tied together by one mission: to connect and empower marginalized and diasporic creatives, to build a space for stereotype-defying, boundary-pushing works.
Team
⊛ Founders
Na Zhong
Fiction Writer, Translator, Podcast Host, Accent Accent Co-founder
Na Zhong is a fiction writer and translator based in New York. A 2023 MacDowell Fellow and 2021-2022 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, she has published with Guernica, Carve, A Public Space, Lit Hub, among others. Hailing from Chengdu, China, she is the Chinese translator of Sally Rooney's three novels and the co-founder of Accent Society.
Fiction Writer, Translator, Podcast Host, Accent Accent Co-founder
Na Zhong is a fiction writer and translator based in New York. A 2023 MacDowell Fellow and 2021-2022 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, she has published with Guernica, Carve, A Public Space, Lit Hub, among others. Hailing from Chengdu, China, she is the Chinese translator of Sally Rooney's three novels and the co-founder of Accent Society.
Jiaoyang Li
Poet, Interdisciplinary Artist, Accent Accent Co-founder
Jiaoyang Li is a poet and visual artist currently based in New York. Her work has showcased in New York Live Arts Center, The Immigrants Artist Biennial, The Los Angeles Review, Life Magazine among others. She has received grants and support from New York Foundation For the Arts, British Council, Pen America, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Breadloaf Conference, The Performance Project at USS and others. She was the poet in residence at Chashama gallery.
Poet, Interdisciplinary Artist, Accent Accent Co-founder
Jiaoyang Li is a poet and visual artist currently based in New York. Her work has showcased in New York Live Arts Center, The Immigrants Artist Biennial, The Los Angeles Review, Life Magazine among others. She has received grants and support from New York Foundation For the Arts, British Council, Pen America, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Breadloaf Conference, The Performance Project at USS and others. She was the poet in residence at Chashama gallery.
Xiaoyan Lin
Poet, Lionmu Education CEO, EDM Producer, Accent Sisters Bookstore Co-Founder
Hongru Pan, pen name Xiao Yan, a bilingual poet and co-founder of the Accent Sisters Speakeasy Bookstore/gallery. She has published a few poetry collections in Mandarin and English: Invisible Tel Aviv, Cafe After Dawn, etc. She is also an entrepreneur in technology & education business and was rewarded as Hurun 30 under 30 entrepreneur in 2022.
Poet, Lionmu Education CEO, EDM Producer, Accent Sisters Bookstore Co-Founder
Hongru Pan, pen name Xiao Yan, a bilingual poet and co-founder of the Accent Sisters Speakeasy Bookstore/gallery. She has published a few poetry collections in Mandarin and English: Invisible Tel Aviv, Cafe After Dawn, etc. She is also an entrepreneur in technology & education business and was rewarded as Hurun 30 under 30 entrepreneur in 2022.
⊛ Space Manager
Siyu Chen
Siyu Chen was born in Shanghai and raised in Shanghai and Singapore. She is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with drawing, video, and text. Her work interweaves obsessions, losses, and humor to reflect on the psychological experiences of migration. She has exhibited at tutu Gallery (New York), FJORD (Philadelphia), Arts Letters and Number (Upstate New York), am art space (Shanghai), Studio Gallery (Shanghai), Bumpodo Gallery (Tokyo), and more. Currently, she serves as the space manager at Accent Sisters.
Siyu Chen was born in Shanghai and raised in Shanghai and Singapore. She is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with drawing, video, and text. Her work interweaves obsessions, losses, and humor to reflect on the psychological experiences of migration. She has exhibited at tutu Gallery (New York), FJORD (Philadelphia), Arts Letters and Number (Upstate New York), am art space (Shanghai), Studio Gallery (Shanghai), Bumpodo Gallery (Tokyo), and more. Currently, she serves as the space manager at Accent Sisters.
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