All About Me

I love independent media, both on and offline, and have spent most of my adulthood in the arts and in my Asian American and mixed-race communities, helping folks find and develop their voices. In my world, a media presence and representation in popular culture ARE political issues essential to the uplift of every race, class, and marginalized group.

I co-founded and was a senior editor and development director at Hyphen magazine, and I've been a contributing editor at Other magazine as well. I also worked for ten years in nonprofit administration in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly arts in the Asian American community. Check out Kearny Street Workshop and its annual arts festival APAture if you're in the Bay Area in the fall.

I currently serve on the Board of the Carl Brandon Society, a nonprofit supporting writers of color who work with speculative genres. (That's right, we're sci-fi geeks!) We offer two scholarships to develop writers of color professionally, we give out two annual literary awards, and maintain a number of other programs to promote PoC in speculative fiction.

I have an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University, and, as one does when one has an MFA, I've taught writing at SFSU, Kearny Street Workshop, and San Francisco's School of the Arts.

You can see my writing in McSweeney's issue #14, and a forthcoming issue of The Encyclopedia Project. Yeah, I'm still working on the being published thing. You can hear me reading a short story here.

I keep two personal blogs, SeeLight (about writing and books and politics and other stuff) and atlas(t) (about mapping, urbanism, landscape, and geography), and also post reviews at the Bay Area NPR affiliate KQED's arts and culture website. I also blog at Hyphen magazine's blog. You can see feeds of all of these blogs to the right.