Lisa

Chen

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Lisa Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in Hanging Loose, ZZYZVA, Prairie Schooner, and Threepenny Review. She lives in New York and works as a media and communications consultant for progressive organizations and campaigns. www.burroofinformationandculture.blogspot.com

2009-12-31T00:09:16Z

R. Zamora

Linmark

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R. Zamora Linmark has lived in Manila, London, Madrid, San Francisco, and Honolulu. Rolling the R’s is his first novel.

2009-12-30T20:40:12Z

Luis H.

Francia

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Luis H. Francia is a poet, journalist, and nonfiction writer. His poetry books include The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems and Museum of Absences. He is the author of Memories of Overdevelopment: Reviews and Essays of Two Decades; the editor of Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English; and co-editor, with Eric Gamalinda, of Flippin’: Filipinos on America, and of Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999, with Angel Velasco Shaw. The Beauty of Ghosts, poetry for the theater, premiered in 2007. He writes a monthly online column, “The Artist Abroad,” for Manila’s Daily Inquirer. Born and raised in Manila, he lives in New York City and teaches at New York University.

2009-12-31T00:10:09Z

Thaddeus

Rutkowski

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Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. The author of the novels Tetched (Behler Publications) and Roughhouse (Kaya Press), he teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York and has taught at Pace University, the Hudson Valley Writers Center and the Asian American Writers Workshop. He has been the fiction editor of Many Mountains Moving magazine since 2007. www.thaddeusrutkowski.com.

2009-12-31T00:12:10Z

Sia

Figiel

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Sia Figiel was born in 1967. Author of novels, plays, and poetry, she has traveled extensively in Europe and the Pacific Islands, and has had residencies at the University of Technology in Sydney, the East-West Center in Hawaii, the Pacific Writing Forum at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and Logoipulotu College in Savaii. She is also known as a performance poet and has appeared at several international literary festivals. Her first novel, where we once belonged, won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Best First Book for the Southeast Asia/South Pacic region. She lives in Samoa.

2009-12-30T20:10:59Z

Brian

Castro

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Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950, and arrived in Australia in 1961. His novels include Birds of Passage (1983), which shared the Australian/Vogel Literary Award; Double-Wolf (1991), winner of the Age Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction; After China (1992), which also won the Victorian Premier’s Award; and Stepper (1997), for which he received the National Book Council Banjo Award. His latest novel is The Garden Book, winner of the Queensland Premier’s fiction prize. The Bath Fugues will be published in June 2009. He is currently the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.

2009-12-30T20:25:53Z

Lin

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Ed Lin lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung. www.edlinforpresident.com

2009-12-30T20:43:59Z

Ishle Yi

Park

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Ishle Yi Park’s writings have appeared in numerous publications, including New American Writing, Beacon Best Writers of All Colors 2001, and The Best American Poetry of 2003. She has performed in the United States, Cuba and Korea, and was a featured poet on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. In April 2004, she was named Poet Laureate of Queens, N.Y. www.ishle.com

2009-12-30T20:42:41Z

Denise

Uyehara

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Denise Uyehara is an award-winning performance artist, writer and playwright whose work has been presented in U.S., London, Tokyo, Helsinki and Vancouver. A pioneering performance artist whose work the Los Angeles Times hails as “mastery [that] amounts to a coup de theater,” Uyehara was one of the first to explore Asian American queer subjectivity through performance. www.deniseuyehara.com

2009-12-30T20:44:49Z

Takeshi

Kitano (subject, not author)

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Takeshi Kitano was born in Tokyo in 1947. He entered show business as a stand-up comic in 1972, and has become Japan’s foremost media personality. Kitano turned director in 1989 to make Violent Cop. Fireworks (Hana-bi) won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival.

2009-12-30T20:39:14Z

Nobuo

Ayukawa

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Nobuo Ayukawa was born in Tokyo in 1920 and is considered the “pilot” of modern Japanese poetry. He was one of the founding poets of the Arechi (Wasteland) group, and translated the work of T.S. Eliot and later, William Burroughs, into Japanese. Ayukawa was drawn to Eliot after encountering "The Wasteland" when it was first translated into Japanese in the 1930s, and the Arechi poets bore witness to the disillusionment of post-war Japan in a new language inspired by Modernism. Stylistically, Ayukawa rejected traditional Japanese poetic concerns of recording the movements of nature or exploring purely emotional themes. Instead, he mined his past experiences as a soldier in World War II and paid homage to his literary influences in abstract, lyrical modernist works that collaged remembered conversations among friends with literary quotations taken (and in some cases, reworked) from Mann, Eliot, Kafka, Pound and others. He also made it his mission to keep the war experience alive while fos

2009-12-31T00:06:54Z

Kazuo

Hara

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Born in 1945, Hara Kazuo was influenced as a young man by the protest movements that took place throughout Japan and the world in the late 1960s and 70s. He founded Shisso Productions in 1971 with his wife, producer, and primary collaborator Sachiko Kobayashi. He has published five documentary films thus far, including the award-winning The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, widely recognized as most important and influential documentary ever made in Japan, Goodbye CP, Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974, and A Dedicated Life.

2009-12-30T20:36:27Z

Genpei

Akasegawa

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Genpei Akasegawa is a rare phenomenon, an artist who successfully transitioned from the avant-garde to the larger realm of popular culture. He emerged on the Japanese art scene around 1960, starting in the radical "Anti-Art" movement and becoming a member of the seminal artist collectives Neo Dada and Hi Red Center. The epic piece Model 1,000-Yen Note Incident (1963-1974), which involved a real-life police investigation and trial, cemented his place as an inspired conceptualist. His irreverent humor and cunning observation of everyday life made him popular as a writer, peaking with his 1998 book Rõjinryoku, in which he put forth a hilariously positive take on the declining capabilities of the elderly. Hyperart: Thomasson, marks a crucial turning point in his metamorphosis from a subversive culture to a popular culturatus.

2009-12-31T00:13:08Z

José Garcia

Villa

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Jose Garcia Villa was born in Manila, Philippines, in 1908, and emigrated to the United States in 1929. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico in 1932, then moved to New York for graduate study at Columbia University. Scribner's published a collection of stories called Footnote to Youth in 1933. In 1933, Villa dedicated himself exclusively to poetry and the experimental opportunities poetry promised. His first collection, Have Come, Am Here, was published in 1942 by Viking, and won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. His next book, Volume Two, was published in 1949 by New Directions, where he served as associate editor from 1949-1951. He went on to publish two more volumes of poetry in the United States — Selected Poems and New (1958: McDowell, Obolensky) and Appassionata (1979: King and Cowen) — and a number of books in the Philippines. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1942), Bollingen Foundation Fellowship (1951-52), Shelley Memorial Award (1958), Philippines Pro Patria Award (1961), Philippines Cultural Heritage Award (1962), and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1963). He was appointed Presidential Adviser on Cultural Affairs by the Philippine government in 1968 and elected Philippines National Artist in 1973. In the Philippines, Villa became the arbiter of literary taste in the growing body of English language work being produced. He taught poetry at City College and the New School, and held private poetry workshops in his Greenwich Village apartment. Villa died on February 7, 1997 in New York City.

2009-12-30T20:46:10Z

Luis

Cabalquinto

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Born in the Philippines, Luis Cabalquinto first came to the United States in 1968. He studied writing at Cornell University, the New School, and New York University. He writes in English and two Filipino languages. He lives in New York and the Philippines.

2009-12-31T00:08:20Z

Sesshu

Foster

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sesshu foster dust on the roadside, deep dust on leaves, crumbs, crumbling... 25 years teaching (snap fingers). smoky haze crosses thoughts. free helicopter ride across the cascades south of el dorado glacier with broken ankle & $50. ranger joe lowe (i was so happy to see him) called for a chopper to get me out of the stehekin river where i was so free & easy on the rocks 40 miles from my vehicle---joe lowe asked me to critique his story. i critiqued joe's story & sent him a check for $100. with a bottle of percodan or percocet from the ER, i rode 1200 miles back to los angeles, my broken leg wrapped in an ace bandage, writing notes about whatever i saw looking backwards. the pain of 1200 miles on a broken ankle was nothing like after they screwed a piece of steel on it & inserted eight screws. i sent the notes to the BELIEVER MAGAZINE in thanks for their 2006 award, and they said thanks, sesshu.

2009-12-30T19:45:15Z

Younghill

Kang

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Born in 1903 in what is now known as North Korea, Younghill Kang was educated in Korea, and Japan. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1921, finishing his education in Boston and Cambridge. A prolific writer, Kang published articles in The New York Times, The Nation, The Saturday Review of Literature, and the Encyclopædia Britannica, among others. While teaching English at New York University, he became friends with fellow professor Thomas Wolfe, who introduced him to Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins. Kang's first book, The Grass Roof, was published by Scribner's in 1931. A children's book based on Kang's early life entitled The Happy Grove was published in 1933, and East Goes West was released in 1937. Throughout his life, Kang was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including two Guggenheim fellowships, the New School's Louis S. Memorial Prize, and an honorary doctorate in literature from Koryo University. Au Matin du Pays Calme, the French translation of The Grass Roof, won Le Prix Halperine Kaminsky, France's annual award for best book in translation. Kang died in 1972 at his home in Satellite Beach, Florida.

2009-12-30T20:37:34Z

Catherine

Liu

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Catherine Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies/Visual Studies, Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to directing the UCI Humanities Center, she is completing a book manuscript which addresses the abuse of populist mistrust of elites and its relationship to anti-intellectualism in American cultural politics. Her research and teaching focus on the intellectual history and formation of cultural criticism, psychoanalytic theory, political economy of cultural revolutions and the work of the Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin. She has published art criticism, museum history, cultural policies and neoliberalism.

2009-12-31T00:11:13Z

Josey

Foo

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Josey Foo is a Chinese native of Malaysia who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1980s. Her first collection of writings, Endou, was published by Lost Roads in 1995; portions were included in The Best American Essays 1995. Foo has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and was the recipient of an Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award. A two-time Yale Series of Younger Poets finalist, Foo helps her husband Richard Ferguson run Crooked Shelf Books in Farmington, New Mexico, and works as a lawyer-advocate on and near the Navajo Nation.

2009-12-30T20:13:28Z

Koon

Woon

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Koon Woon was born in a small village near Canton in 1949, immigrated to the United States in 1960, and presently resides in Seattle's International District. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Poem and the World: An International Anthology and Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry. As the publisher of the literary zine, Chrysanthemum, and Goldfish Press, Woon is a vocal advocate for Seattle literature. The Truth in Rented Rooms is his first book.

2009-12-30T20:46:49Z

Kimiko

Hahn

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Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven poetry collections. The Unbearable Heart won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award. She has received numerous grants, including a Natinoal Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award. She teaches at Queens College/The City University of New York.

2009-12-30T20:35:13Z

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2009-12-30T19:40:25Z

Casio

Abe

Casio Abe is the author of several books on Japanese film and popular culture. His most recent books include "Nihon Eiga no 21 Seiki ga Hajimaru" (2005 Kinema Junposha), "Mikio Naruse" (2005 Kawade Shobo Shinsha), "Boku ha Konna Nichijo ya Kanjo de dekiteimasu" (2007 Shobunsha) and "Manga ha Ugoku" (2008 Izumi Shobo). He has been a Specially Appointed Professor in Faculty of Arts, Course of Philosophy and Creative Writing at Rikkyo University since 2007. He published his first poetry book in 2008.

2009-12-30T20:18:44Z

2009-12-30T23:45:40Z

Shailja

Patel

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2010-01-06T18:00:46Z