The musical “Miss Saigon” has been troubling Asian communities for 20 years, due to its romanticizing of war and sex trafficking, and its damaging stereotypes of Asian women and men. The Twin Cities APIA community and its allies have organized against this show since its…
Gazillion Voices magazine has been blowing up the media, with coverage in MPR, NPR, Colorlines, Racialicious, and now The Daily Beast. Huge thanks to all the reporters who have taken interest in this story, including the fantastic Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
Katie is thrilled to announce that she was recently hired in the contract position of Artist Grants Researcher for the fantastic organization Springboard for the Arts! In this job, she’ll be preparing grant research materials for interested artists and arts organizations.
Katie’s poems “How to Divide a Peninsula” and “No Gun Ri, or the Battle That Wasn’t” are in Line Break, an online journal of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. This special adoptee-focused issue is curated by poet Jennifer Kwon Dobbs.
Katie has signed on to write a regular feature for Land of a Gazillion Adoptees, which is transitioning from a blog to an online magazine in August. She joins an impressive list of writers and artists from across the adoption spectrum and around the country. Katie…
So…close…! Katie was named an Honorable Mention in the 2013 McKnight Fellowship contest. It gives her cold comfort to know that among the other Honorable Mentions are a winner of a National Book Award and winner of a Minnesota Book Award. Click here for the…
The Origin(s) Project: Memoirs in Motion, which included “N/A” and Sun Mee Chomet’s “How to Be a Korean Woman,” was named one of the Best Shows of 2012 by Star Tribune critic Rohan Preston.
Featured in Rochester Magazine’s “Ten Or So Questions With…”
Profile in Twin Cities Daily Planet’s “Who IS That?” blog