I'm a writer in Oakland.
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 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.
She has blogged at Hyphen's staff blog (Oct 2004 - November 2005), John Scalzi's blog Whatever (July 2005), and has three blogs of her own: SeeLight (personal blog), atlas(t) (mapping and geography), and atlas(t)'s offspring, Atlas(t): The Galleon Trade Edition She has also blogged occasionally at Other magazine's staff blog, and currently posts a few times a month at local NPR affiliate KQED's arts and culture website.
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