Curriculum Vitae

FEATURED READINGS/PERFORMANCES/PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Trans/Giving Express UCLA, Los Angeles, CA December 8, 2007
Trannyfest Unplugged, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA November 2, 2007
“Dyke Verse City” Nashville, TN
San Francisco Pride 2007 Main Stage, June 23, 2007.
San Francisco Pride Trans Stage, June 24, 2007.

Queer Open Mike Feature, LGBT Center, San Francisco, CA June 22, 2007
Trans March, Dolores Park, San Francisco, CA June 22, 2007.
“≤1?” Fresh Meat 2007, San Francisco, CA June 14-16, 2007
“The Penis Issue: Trans and Intersex Women Speak Their Minds,” National Queer Arts Festival 2007, San Francisco, CA June 13, 2007
What is Queer Art? Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. April 7, 2007
Ladyfest South Atlanta GA. February 2007
Transgender Dialogues, March 18, 2007, West Hollywood, CA
National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, Columbus, OH, September 7-16, 2006
San Francisco Pride 2006, Transgender Stage, San Francisco, CA. June 26, 2006
San Francisco Pride 2006, Trans March, San Francisco, CA. June 24, 2006
Transforming Community, National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA June 20, 2006
“Seppuku” Fresh Meat 2006, San Francisco, CA June 15-17, 2006
Trans/Giving, West Hollywood, CA. February 18, 2006
Art Amok, 7 Stages Theater, Atlanta GA. February 2, 2006
Emory University National Coming Out Week Featured Speaker,. Atlanta, GA, October 14, 2005 
Charis Bookstore, Atlanta, GA October 14, 2005
UCLA National Coming Out Week Featured Speaker, October 9, 2005
Santa Cruz Pride, Pink Saturday, Santa Cruz, CA June 4, 2005
OutCRY, UCLA May 15, 2005
University of California, Santa Barbara, Panelist, Womyn of Color Conference, April 9, 2005
University of California, Santa Barbara GenderQueer/Queer Genders Conference Plenary Speaker, Santa Barbara, CA—, Feb 12, 2005
University of California, Santa Barbara Keynote speaker, Queer Pride Week, April 22, 2005
Pomona College “Coming Out Trans,“ National Coming Out Week, Women’s Union, October 14, 2004:
Writers with Drinks, Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA October 9, 2004
Oral Fixation, Dolores Park Café, San Francisco, CA September 17, 2004
Cliterati, The Tower II, Atlanta, GA June 24, 2004
WAR! An International Art Exhibition, SOMarts, QCC, San Francisco, CA June 5, 2005
Atlanta Pride 2004, Women’s World Stage June 27, 2004
Ohana Exposed, UCLA May 19, 2004
Ohana House “Race and Gender,“ Hollywood, CA April 27, 2004
WhamBamTrans Arts Fest, Dirt Palace, Providence, RI April 17, 2004
TransFormations, Chapman University, Anaheim, CA March 29, 2004
Pomona College “Race and Gender, Race as Gender“, Claremont, CA Feb 19, 2004
Charis Book Circle  “Reconstructing Ryka “ Charis Books,  Atlanta, GA. Feb 1, 2004
San Francisco LGBT Center, “Intercourse--A Sex and Gender Recipe for Revolution” Part of the National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco CA June 14, 2003
San Francisco LGBT Center, “ForWord Girls” San Francisco, CA.September 28, 2002
Associated Writing Programs Conference, “Poetry and Performance” Panel Discussion, New Orleans, LA,  March 2002.
Pasadena Public Library, “Celebration of National Poetry Month” April 25, 2001.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art "California Artists behind Barbed Wire: Japanese American Artists and World War II" a collaboration between the Japanese American National Museum and LACMA.  Panel discussion examining the work of Japanese American artists during and after the experience of the internment camps in World War II. February 15, 2001
Los Angeles Radical Women, “Insurgent Voices: Asian Pacific American poets celebrate a history of passion, strength, and revolution!” April 27, 2000.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, December 5, 1999.
The World Stage African American Arts Enclave, “The World Beyond” September 29, 1999.
The Schindler House (LA Poetry Festival), “The Poetics of Space and Light” April 22, 1999.
The Arroyo Arts Collective (LA Poetry Festival), April 24, 1999.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, March 27,1999.
Borders Bookstore, Pasadena June 16, 1999.
University of Southern California, “Wake Up Call” Panel discussion on the relevancy of the 19th century to contemporary poetry.  January 20, 1997.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Writers in Focus” August 16, 1996.
Cafe Mayhem, Pasadena, CA, April 1994 .
Java Joe Coffeehouse, Los Angeles, CA, August 1993.
Java Joe Coffeehouse, Los Angeles, CA, December 1992.
Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA, May 1992.
The Henry, Cornell University, January 1992.
Goldwin-Smith Hall, Cornell University, June 1991 .
Risley Hall, Cornell University (Asian American Playhouse), February 1991
“Of Rice and Men,” Cornell University Asian American Playhouse, 1990.
Kerckhoff Coffee House, University of California, Los Angeles,  October 1989.


PUBLICATIONS
   
POETRY
“As the Sun Falls Away,“Sleeping Against the Wall,“My Father Holds Me Like a Bible,“ Fall 2003, Lodestar Quarterly
“See How the Night Grows Cold” Rising, June 2003
“Mixing Paints for Monet” San Gabriel Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2001.
“Wavelets” San Gabriel Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2001.
“The Rain of the Buddhas” Monolid, Fall 2001.
“And So Seven Years Later” Spillway, Spring 2001.
“Fearing Evil” Southern Poetry Review, Winter/Spring 2000.
“Apparition” Southern Poetry Review, Winter/Spring 2000.
“Alone with the Israelites” Grand Street 67 Fall 1999.
“Through the Floor” Willow Review, Fall 1999.
“Memorial” Wisconsin Review, Fall 1999.
“The Harvest and the Garden” Asian Pacific American Journal, Spring 1999.
“When the Children Drive,” Pleiades, Spring 1999.
“Ithaca at Last” Art Times, December 1998
“Serenade” Asian Pacific American Journal, Fall 1998.
“And We Met Maria Martinez,” Midland Review, 1992.
“Dust” Community Review, 1992.
“Turning Like a Wheel” Community Review, 1992.
“Obon” Jacaranda Review, 1991.
“Why Restaurants Play Music” LMNO Press, 1991.
“Shiro the Produce Man Goes Crazy and Kills a Few People” Watu, 1991.
“What I See When I Call the Ghosts of the Living” Tsunami, 1991.
“Healers” Watu, Fall 1990.
“Formula” Watu,  Fall 1990.

FICTION
Work forthcoming in the anthology Coming Out of the Closet Again: Queer Women on Loving Men. (Soft Skull Press).
“Last Letter of La Gotika”  Tsur Spring 2001
“Reparation Day” San Gabriel Valley Literary Review, Fall 1999.
“Home Now” American Literature for Life and Work, Chris LaRusso, ed. South West Educational Press, Chicago, IL, 1996
“Home Now” American Eyes , New Asian American Short Stories for Young Adults Lori Carlson, ed. , Henry Holt, New York, NY 1995. (American Library Association Award Winner)
“Akira no Monogatari,” Parallax, 1991.
“The Land of Great Horses,” Enigmata, 1985.

ESSAYS
“Educating Ryka” FEM Magazine, Summer 2005.

CHAPBOOKS
When Chocolate Tastes Like Someone Else’s Dream 2005
Of the Cross, 2004
Never Throw Anything in the Fishpond, 2003
What Happen When the Screen Door Breaks, 2002
Where Water was Turned to Cups of Tea, Cone Eleven, 2000.
The Dead Thoreau, self-published, 1996.
JA, Loose Ends Press, 1991.


RECORDINGS
Our World, with The FloatingHouse.  Cone Eleven Records, 2000.
The Machine is not the Enemy, poetry/techno with John Tejada, courtesy Palette Records, 2001.


HONORS/AWARDS
Certificate of Recognition, for "extraordinary commitment to free speech and artistic expression, as well as the visibility and well-being of Transgender people." California State Senate, November 2003.
Houston Poetry Festival, Juried Poet, Houston TX April 2000.
Chesterfield Film Writing Competition, Semi-Finalist 2000.
Poetry in the Windows, First Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival, April, 1999.
The Academy of American Poets Prize, 1991, Cornell University.
The Corson-Bishop Poetry Award, 1991, Cornell University.
University of California Regents Scholarship, 1982, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Alumni Scholarship, 1982, UCLA.
UCLA Chancellor’s Scholarship, 1982, UCLA.
Junior National Judo Champion, 1979, Seattle, Washington.