Sun Yung Shin is an award winning Minnesota writer and poet, she’s also an educator and activist. In 2016 she edited the book : A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota -- it features essays on what it’s like to live as a person of color in Minnesota, and includes writers Kao Kalia Yang, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, Shannon Gibney, David Lawrence Grant, Heid Erdrich, and many more. A Good Time for the Truth was just named our next One Book One Minnesota book and it’s been made freely available for Minnesotans to engage in a collective reading and to come together as a virtual community
MN writer and poet Sun Yung Shin on "A Good Time for Truth: Race in Minnesota"
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