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PUBLICATIONS
FICTION and CREATIVE NON-FICTION
“Wooing Elizabeth” in Zyzzyva #82 Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (Spring 2008).
“Christmas Stories” in Honolulu Stories, ed. Gavan Daws and Bennett Hymer (Mutual Publishing, LLC., 2008): 273-287.
“Trading Heroes” in Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball, ed. Philip F. Deaver (Univ.of Nebraska Press, 2007): 254-264.
“A Troublemaker Tells Secrets” in Aunties: Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother, ed. Ingrid Sturgis (Ballantine Books, 2004): 64-67.
“The Icebox Stay Coming” in Zyzzyva #62 Vol. XVII, No. 2 (Fall 2001).
“Trading Heroes” in Sonora Review #40 (Spring 2001).
“Christmas Stories” in Bamboo Ridge #75 (Spring ‘99).
“One Fan’s Tribute” in Honolulu (September 1997): 42-44.
“Writing Culture” in A.: Inside Asian America (February/March 1996): 22-23.
“What I Really Wanted to Say at Steve McGarrett’s Retirement Party” in Honolulu (Nov. 95): 28-32.
“Stupid Questions” in Honolulu (April 1995): 74-75.ESSAYS
“Sia Figiel's Where We Once Belonged” in Asian-American Arts Alliance Dialogue #6 (Spring ‘00).
“Romolo Valencia” in Asian-American Arts Alliance Dialogue #3 (Spring ‘99).
“Writing in Sacred Spaces” in HarperCollins Fellowship in Composition Collection (Spring 1995): 5.
“Yuppies: Victors or Victims of Ideology?” in Business Today (Spring 1990): 53.
DRAMA
DRAMATIC READING
Futless, by Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu, HI. (April 17, 2005).
CRITICISM
PAPERS PRESENTED
“Internment Narratives in Japanese-American Literature,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, February 1995.
“Identity and the Mirror of Bifocality: Kazuo Miyamoto’s Hawaii End of the Rainbow,” Theoretical Approaches to Marginalized Literatures, University of Montana, MO, March 1994.
DISTINCTIONS
First Place — Hawai’i Prize Full Length Play, Kumu Kahua Theatre/Univ. of Hawaii, 2003.
HarperCollins Fellow in Composition, Harper-Collins, New York, NY, 1995.
Travel Grant, University of Missouri-St. Louis Graduate Travel Grant in English, St. Louis, MO, 1994.
First Place—Business Today essay contest, Business Today, Princeton, NJ, 1990.
McKinney Writing Award — Fiction, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1991, 1989.
EDUCATION
Master of Arts in English — Creative Writing, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Creative Writing Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Bachelor's of Science — Communication, emphasis in Literature, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
PROFILES and INTERVIEWS
“First Time Playwright Strikes Gold,” The East Tennessee Writer, Vol. 13, No. 3, March 2005, p. 2.
"Word Up!" The Riverfront Times, Number 832, September 14-20, 1994, p. 5.
"Outreach Program Nurtures Students with the 'Write' Stuff," Tri-Valley Dispatch, Vol. 61, No. 44, October 30, 1991, p.1.
"Challenging a Traditional Liberal Arts Education," A New Way of Looking at the World, September 1990, p. 14-15.