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I'm a writer in Oakland.
Biography
Claire Light has a master of fine arts degree in fiction writing from San Francisco State University (SFSU). She's still waiting for it to be useful.
The former program manager of Asian American arts organization Kearny Street Workshop (KSW), she has taught creative writing at SFSU as a TA, as a writer-in-residence at School of the Arts, and to adults at KSW. She is a founder and a former senior editor of nonprofit Asian American magazine Hyphen, and has been a contributing editor at nonprofit magazine Other. She's published her stories and articles in a forthcoming volume of The Encyclopedia Project, McSweeney's, FarThing, Hyphen, Other, Sensor, Viet Tide, popandpolitics.com and various online and print zines. She was KSW's APAture featured artist in literature for 2005.
Claire blogs at Hyphen's blog, her own blogs: SeeLight (personal blog) and atlas(t) (mapping and geography), and currently posts a few times a month at local NPR affiliate KQED's arts and culture website.
Her Twitter feeds are seelight (personal), and atlas(t) (mapping).
Interests
literature, yoga, dancing, geography, women's issues, visual art, odonymy, transportation, racism, hybridity, asian american, hapa, multiracial, urbanism, young adult fiction, movies, reading, writing, feminism, walking, surfing, fiction
