Katie will read with author Shawnte Orion as part of District 4’s Third Thursday reading series in Mesa. Reading takes place at Jarrod’s Coffee, Tea & Gallery at 154 W. Main Street, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
The Arizona chapter of National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) held a community storytelling event on Sunday, January 10. Storytellers included women from the state’s diverse Asian populations, including: a third generation Japanese American whose family were Arizona farmers; a first generation Pacific Islander…
Katie will perform her solo piece “N/A” at University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, as part of a weekend symposium on adoption January 22-23, 2016.
Katie will join a group of writers on Sunday, October 18 at Phoenix Art Museum, as they read literary responses to the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho. Screening starts at 2:00 p.m.
Katie’s essay “Disability and Art in the Public Battlefield” has been published in the summer issue of Souvenir, a journal out of Morgantown, West Virginia. To read the essay, click here.
Katie’s essay “Shelling” has been accepted into a forthcoming anthology of lyric essays published by Tinderbox Editions, a small press of poetry and essays set to launch in 2016. She is delighted to be part of a collection of one of her favorite forms, the…
Katie attended the 2015 national convention of OCA-APIA Advocates in San Francisco as a guest of the OCA Greater Phoenix Chapter. The gathering focused on OCA’s priorities of championing immigrants, defending voting rights, and training the next generation of APIA leaders. It also featured a…
Katie’s essay “How to Get to the Han River” has been accepted into the forthcoming #FliptheScript anthology, to be published by The An-Ya Project. She is thrilled to join fellow contributors Mathew Salesses, Shannon Gibney, Kimberly McKee, and many others.
Katie gets to hang out with other writers and the delightful, forward-thinking folks behind Four Chambers Press of Phoenix. They create very cool site-specific journals and literary events and foster and champion the work of local authors. Plus, they are super nice and smiley.
Katie worked with Asian Pacific Community in Action (APCA), a Phoenix-based community health organization, to organize a series of Women’s Health Forums. These forums brought together activists, community members, organizations, and artists to provide access and information to women of Asian Pacific American descent in…