I am a Sansei/Pinay writer and editor, originally from Northern California and now living in the Pacific Northwest. My writing has appeared or will appear in The San Francisco Chronicle, Kartika Review, Seattlest, the Rafu Shimpo, and Crosscurrents Literary Journal. As a professor in English and African American Studies, I taught classes in writing, humanities, and multicultural American literature. I received my degrees in English from UC Berkeley (BA) and from the University of Washington (MA, PhD). I've received awards from the Ford Foundation, the University of Iowa, the Asia Pacific Fund, the University of Washington, and the National Japanese American Citizens League (JACL).

I contribute to The Seattle Star, and the book review section of Seattle's International Examiner, an Asian American community newspaper. I'm also currently working on a memoir, a novel, some food writing, and other essays on my blog, Kikugirl. Please stop by there and visit!

New California Writing 2012 (Heyday Books)

My writing and editing interests and experience include multicultural American literatures as well as food writing. I've been teaching English (literature and composition) for nine years at the university level.

I've also edited three book manuscripts, developmental and copy:
-- Hiroshi Kashiwagi's memoir (Swimming in the American, published by the Asian American Curriculum Project), winner of the 2005 American Book Award
--Kashiwagi's collection of plays, Shoe Box Plays (Asian American Curriculum Project)
--Doug Chin's Seattle's International District: The Making of an Pan-Asian American Community (University of Washington Press)