Thursday Aug 27, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Book.
Mud on the Moon is a hybrid memoir that intertwines a daughter’s exploration of her Filipino immigrant father’s obscured past with a reimagined version of his untold story.
Born in Southeast Alaska, Nita Noveno traces the legacy of her father, who arrived in the US in 1928 as part of a wave of Filipino men seeking better opportunities through manual labor in agriculture and other industries. The book alternates between Nita’s coming-of-age story and imagined chapters of her father’s life, revealing the gaps and silences that lie between their experiences. With a blend of personal and historical imagery, Mud on the Moon offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Filipino immigrants in America. It is a meditation on how family, memory, and identity are shaped by the stories we inherit, both spoken and unspoken, across generations.
About the Author.
Nita Noveno is the recipient of the 2024 Women’s Prose Prize from Red Hen Press for her hybrid memoir Mud on the Moon (August 2026). A graduate of The New School’s MFA Creative Writing Program, her creative nonfiction and hybrid work has appeared in MĀNOA, Hippocampus, The Margins, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction, composition, and literature at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and is the founder, curator, and host emeritus of Sunday Salon, a long-running New York City reading series. The child of Filipino immigrant parents, she grew up in Southeast Alaska and now lives in Queens, NY.
About the Moderator.
Wah-Ming Chang is a writer and bookmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review and Epiphany Magazine, among other publications, and has been supported by such organizations as the Saltonstall Foundation for the Art, Ucross Foundation, and Art Omi. Hand, Held, her artist’s book about her father’s art practice, is forthcoming from Bored Wolves in 2026. She is the managing editorial director at Catapult.