SKY TRAIN TO BECOME SCREENPLAY!

Late-December, 2010 I am very thrilled to announce that I have won a fellowship from the national film arts organization, the Center for Asian American Media, to adapt Sky Train into a screenplay! I will be paired with a professional screenwriter who will mentor me this year. Here’s some of what the judges...

Presentation to the Dalai Lama

I had the privilege of presenting the book to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in late-September in southern California....

PEN Award Ceremony Photos

The Official PEN American Center Photograph. © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American...

P E N W I N N E R ! ! !

I am extremely pleased and deeply honored to learn that my book has won the PEN AMERICAN CENTER’S OPEN BOOK AWARD for 2010. From the judge’s note: “Thank you Canyon for your work, your journey, your bravery, your compassion – for walking the women of Tibet all the way home and around the globe....

PEN Award Ceremony

Giving my acceptance speech with the book cover image projected in the background. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American...

Book Clubs are Reading “Sky Train”

“Books on Board” in San Jose, a book club begun twelve years ago, was the first book club to read Sky Train. Clubs across the country are reading...