14 July 2011: I am in the process of renovating satsumaart.wordpress.com to replace this website. Eventually I hope to have satsumabug.com redirect there automatically. In the meantime this site will stay up, but all new updates will be on satsumaart.wordpress.com . All the info on this page is now under "About" and "My work" on that site.
Blog
current: satsumaart.wordpress.com - updated frequently on weekdays
archive: satsumabug.livejournal.com - 2001-2010
just for fun: the besto pesto - not updated, but if you're looking for a pesto recipe...
What I'm working on
I will be doing a daily writing project from July-September, writing for 10-15 minutes each day on short prompts. To join me, sign up for the newsletter and you will receive a new prompt each day from 7/17-9/18. The newsletter is only for these prompts and you will not be added to any other mailing list; there are no strings attached and you may unsubscribe at any time.
I was selected to
take part
in the Eighth Annual
Interdisciplinary Writers Lab in San Francisco, a multidisciplinary,
experimental writers' workshop. My piece, "Chickens," which combines
watercolor and text, is published in the IWL's
online anthology,
Chicken Skin and Impossible Trees, which launched with two San
Francisco readings in July 2011. "Chickens" sits alongside amazing work
by my 10 fellow artists and 2 of our instructors. It's an awesome
anthology, though I say so myself. And yes, the anthology's title comes
from the chickens in my piece.
I am participating in The Sketchbook Project 2011, a traveling sketchbook exhibit. Most sketchbooks are visual only, but I chose to make mine a combination text and visual journal. My sketchbook theme was "A Day in the Life" and I used it to tell the story of my relationship with my cat, Tisha, who passed in November 2010. View scans at the official website, or see my scans for clunkier page-turning but zoom capability.
I have begun a graphic novel of my family history ("novel" here refers to the medium, not the content, which will be nonfiction). To view a thumbnail preview of this project, go here.
Published writings
"Chickens," Chicken Skin and Impossible Trees: The 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Writers Lab 2011, July 2011. Available online exclusively.
Guest posts on blogs
"How To Host a Decluttering/Swapping Party," Making This Home, 15 June 2011.
"Should You Sell on Etsy?" The Mouse Market blog, 11 January 2011.
"A Handmade Artist on the Importance of Repurposing," Making This Home, 20 May 2010.
Academic
"Eating the Exotic: The Growing Acceptability of Chinese Cuisine in San Francisco, 1848-1915." This was my undergrad senior thesis, and I've gotten an unbelievable amount of mileage out of it. Most recently, Jennifer 8 Lee used it while writing her delightful book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles!
"Asians and Asian Americans in the West." This was a chapter I contributed to a high school/college-level textbook, Making of the American West: People and Perspectives. I wrote this in my first year of graduate school.
Other
In summer 2010 I attended a weeklong writing residency with M. Evelina Galang at VONA, a program for writers of color.
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