ISSUE 06 || FALL / WINTER 2009
Contributor
Notes
Issue 06 ▪
Fall/Winter 2009
FICTION
Alka
Khushalani has had a
career in media and advertising as a project manager and producer.
Her
work has appeared in EGO Magazine.
She lives in New York with her husband and children.
Cedric
Yamanaka is the author
of In Good Company, a collection of short
stories. He received the Helen Deutsch Fellowship from Boston
University
while completing his M.A. in Creative Writing. His fiction has
been
published in a number of literary journals.
POETRY
Mary
Chi-Whi
Kim has
published in The New York Times Magazine,
Boxcar Poetry Review, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Kalliope,
Literary
Mama, and other literary journals. Honored with a Kundiman
Fellowship in
2004, she won two poem commissions from The Ohio State University’s
Multicultural Center. Her poetry chapbook, Silken Purse
received
publication by Pudding House Press while her multi-genre book, Karma
Suture,
garnered an Honorable Mention in the 2007 Writers’ Digest International
Self-Published Books Contest. Currently she teaches at Savannah College
of Art
and Design.
Iris
A. Law
will receive her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Notre Dame in
May
2010. A selection of her work which appeared in Cha: An Asian
Literary
Journal was recently nominated for the 2009
Best of the Net Anthology. Iris is also the editor of the new
online
magazine Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry.
Wendi
M. Lee
received her M.F.A. in Fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. She has
poetry and
fiction published or forthcoming in Oyez
Review, Portland Review, Inkwell, Karamu, and Plainsongs,
among others. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband
and a menagerie of pets.
Lee
Minh Sloca
was born in Saigon, Vietnam, where he escaped two weeks prior to its
collapse.
He majored in Psychology at UCSC. After college, he worked for 14 years
in the
mental health and the psycho-educational field with special needs
children.
Feeling unfulfilled, he shifted his life path to being a poet and a
painter.
Lee lives in Los Angeles, CA. After campaigning for Obama in the ’08
election,
he is currently seeking works that will align with the President’s
philosophy
of community
Vuong
Quoc Vu
was born in Saigon, Vietnam. He grew up in San Jose, CA. He
studied
creative writing at San Jose State University and Fresno State
University. His poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review,
Poet
Lore, ZYZZYVA, among others."
NON-FICTION
Katherine
Lien Chariott’s
prose has been published (or will
soon be published) in literary magazines including Sonora Review,
Artful
Dodge, New Ohio Review, 580 Split and upstreet.
She
received an M.F.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from UNLV, where
she was
a Schaeffer Fellow in fiction. She lives in Shanghai.
Lynne
Connor,
a Korean adoptee transplant from
New Jersey recently graduated with an M.F.A. in creative writing from
Mills
College. Her writing tends to center around issues of trans racial
adoption,
identity, race and grief, partly out of a passion, partly out of
necessity. She
is currently working on a memoir and a young adult novel.
Robert
Aquino Dollesin was
still a kid when he left
the Philippines. He now resides in Sacramento, where he manages to jot
down a
short story now and again. In 2008, he was widely published. Among many
other
online venues, his work has appeared in Storyglossia, elimae,
Wigleaf,
Dogzplot, Mudluscious. He sometimes blogs here:
http://robertaquinodollesin.blogspot.com.
J.D.
Ho
was born in Maine, raised in Hawaii, and has
lived in many states between. She has held a variety of jobs, including
counting onion thrips, seeing if bees can learn, harvesting Thomas
Jefferson’s
vegetables, and performing damage control on film sets. Her writing has
appeared in Deus Loci and Louisiana Literature and on
the walls
of Art League Houston. Currently at work on a book-length memoir about
her
family, she is a Michener Fellow in Writing at the University of Texas
in
Austin.
York
Wong
is 72, a model worker in the 50s,
raised hell in the 60s, taught college in the 70s, and retired many
years later
to restore antique clocks. He now writes.
ART
CONTRIBUTORS
Sandy
Choi is very much
a dreamer, truth-seeker and a student of life. Through the
details of everyday life seen as a trivial drudgery, she is revisited
with a familiar ambition to pick up her old paintbrushes after a 10
year hiatus. Inspired by vintage and tattoo art, she hopes her
art will reflect on her many muses. Come check out her works
through Unsavory Characters at unsavorycharacters.blogspot.com.
Doreen
Han is
a mosaic of neuroses. She is Korean Brazilian and currently dabbles in
photography in New York. People say she kind of looks like Dora the
Explorer.
Madiha
Siraj
is not 20. She is 21. She is working toward her BA from University of
California, San Diego in Art History and Criticism and Studio art. She
is
currently listening to Maxïmo Park.
Heidi
Woan is
the third of three children. Initially, Heidi carved out a career in
make-believe. From 1988 to 1995, Heidi created and enacted stories
before an
imaginary audience, since she was often home alone. In 1996, Heidi made
her
acting debut as an extra in her school play about the importance of
recycling;
she is noted for her famous line, “This is an aluminum can, it can be
recycled
and reduce our waste.”
GUEST
INTERVIEWS EDITOR
Byron Wong is a writer and
blogger on Asian American issues (www.bigwowo.com) and is President of
Thymos, a five-year old organization in Portland, Oregon that works
toward the intellectual and social self-determination of Asian
Americans. He works as a mortgage banker in the Portland area and is
married with two young children