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Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging,...(2026), lit. rep Tricia Toney Lawrence @aevitas_creative, spkg. rep Anya Backlund @blueflowerarts.

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New Substack newsletter, finally. Link in IG bio. New Substack newsletter, finally. Link in IG bio. Includes link to @literaryhub's series LETTER FROM MINNESOTA -- 44 essays/letters by Minnesota writers, edited generously by @diamond_jonny, with many thanks, again, to @su_xo. This newsletter includes a poem as usual -- this one is required reading if you haven't already: "Runagate Runagate" by Robert Hayden + a writing prompt on frontiers. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/sunyungshin/p/the-frontier-isnt-a-single-place?r=3cmgh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽Begging us old people to sit down around the 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽Begging us old people to sit down around the fire and make the youngsters watch the ancient Chinese prophecies: Terminator I and II. #nomoredatacenters #AI_slop
My new essay "Letter From Minnesota: Thirteen Ways My new essay "Letter From Minnesota: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Frontier, From an Immigrant in Minneapolis
Sun Yung Shin on the Ever-Shifting Meanings of US Citizenship" is up at LitHub. Big thanks to Jonny Diamond at LitHub @literaryhub and connector and comrade and poetry BFF @su_xo for making these LETTER FROM MINNESOTA happen. When even more of the people who have been most directly victimized by ICE and DHS and this administration have the time, energy, and interest to speak, their voices will and always are the most important. LINK IN BIO. 

https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-the-frontier-from-an-immigrant-in-minneapolis/ 

“For over a century, the frontier served as a powerful symbol of American universalism. It not only conveyed the idea that the country was moving forward but promised that the brutality involved in moving forward would be transformed into something noble.”
–Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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“Few questioned this new militarization of public “Few questioned this new militarization of public sentiment, or the increasingly commonsense notion that soldiers deserved exceptional deference. Between 1850 and 1855, Congress, suddenly the executor of a near-entire continent to dispense, overwhelmingly passed a series of laws that granted land to all veterans of any past war, going back to 1790. Hundreds of thousands of veterans, or their widows and heirs, received warrants for over thirty-four million acres (if they didn’t want the land, they could redeem the warrants for cash).25”
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