Selected Awards/Grants

• FY 2021, FY 2018, FY 2016: San Francisco Arts Commission 

• 2019: Zellerbach Family Foundation for Civil Liberties United

• 2019: Center for Creative Innovation CALI Accelerator grant

• 2019: Intersection for the Arts - The Arts Accelerator

• 2018, 2016, and 2014: Soul-Making Keats Competition, National League of American PEN Women,
1st, 2nd, 3rd  prizes 

• 2021, 2019, 2015. 2013: VONA/Voices national workshop for writers of color,

• 2017 & 2016: Associate Writer, Atlantic Center for the Arts

• 2016 Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s United States of Asian America Festival grant

• 2013-2015: Studio Artist, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica

• 2010: Literary and visual art papers archived at California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, University of

  California, Santa Barbara

• 2004-2006: California State Library California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP) grant
(with the Military Intelligence Service of Northern California)

• 2002: scholarship, first annual A Room of Her Own Writers Retreat

 

Books (author, editor)

• Coming June 2021: Essential Truths: The Bay Area In Color, Pease Press, 350 pp.

• 2019: Editor, Civil Liberties United, Pease Press, 300 pp.

• 2019: Co-author, My First Hundred Years: The Memoirs of Nellie Nakamura. Private commission.

  198 pp, 100 photographs. 2nd printing of  Century of Change, first printed in 2002

• 2018: Editor, Endangered Species, Enduring Values, Pease Press, 272 pp.

• 2016: Editor, Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown, Pease Press, 140 pp.

• 2010: Editor/contributing artist, Distillations: Meditations on the Japanese American Experience from Four   
Sansei Artists, Asian American Women Artists Association, Pease Press, 74 pp. exhibition catalog.

• 2006: Author, In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment, AACP, Inc.     
320 pp, 100 historic photographs. Funded by CCLPEP

• 2002: Co-author, Century of Change: The Memoirs of Nellie Nakamura. Private commission, 2002,
   198 pp,100 photographs.

 

Books (cartographer):

• 2012: Chief cartographer, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca
Snedeker, UC Press

• 2010: Cartographer/artist, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Rebecca Solnit, UC Press

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Selected Anthologies (contributor)

• 2020: "Prayers for a New Reality," (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experience of the Pandemic, Amy Roost &
Joanell Serra, eds, Regal Press

• 2019: "Who Do You Think You Are?" We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health, L.D. Green &
Kelechi Ubozoh, eds., North Atlantic Press

• 2018: “Swimming in the New Normal,” Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God: All the Women in My
Family Sing, Deborah Santana, ed. Nothing But The Truth 

• 2017: “Arboreal Homicide,” Your Golden Sun Still Shines, Denise Sullivan, ed., Manic D Press

• 2009: “Grandma’s House,” and “X-Ray Eyes,” Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless,

  Popcorn Press

• 2008: “A Trunk of Dreams” and “A Living Civics Lesson,” My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of
  Personal History, Association of Personal Historians,

• 2007: “Don’t Look Away,” Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, Asian     
American Women Artists Association

• 2003: “A Well-Made Life,” InvAsian: Growing Up Asian American and Female in the United States, Asian
Women United

 

Selected Literary Journals (contributor)

• July 20, 2020: Dispatches from Quarantine, SF Creative Writing Insittute

• May 14, 2020: San Francisco Public Library's Poem of the Day curated by Poet Laureate Kim Shuck

• Summer 2019: Soundings East

• Mar 2019: sPARKLE + bLINK, print

• Fall 2016:  Eleven Eleven  print

• Spring 2016:  AWAY Journal online

• Winter 2015:  Persimmon Tree online

• Nov 2015:  Mother of All Stories on-line (Asian Women United) online

• Nov 2015: Whirlwind Magazine #6

• Aug 2015: “One Woman’s Hell… A Gentrifier’s Lament,” Poor Magazine

• Aug 2015  Whirlwind Magazine #5

• June 2014: “The Sansei Perspective,” Discover Nikkei online

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Literary Residencies

• 2018: Hypatia-in-the-Woods, Shelton, WA

• 2018:  Newnan Art Rez, Newnan GA

• 2017: Jentel Literary Residency, Banner, Wyoming

• 2017: Associate Writer in Prose with Mitchell S. Jackson, Atlantic Center for the Arts

• 2016: Associate Writer in Fiction with Porochista Khakpour, Atlantic Center for the Arts

• 2009: Activist Arts Retreat, Amed, Bali, Indonesia, Genny Lim

• 2010: Case Riva Writer's Retreat, Chiaverano, Italy

• 2013: PrecArt Writer's Retreat, Chiaverano, Italy

• 2002: scholarship, first annual A Room of Her Own Writers Retreat

 

Visual Art (Highlights from solo and group exhibitions from 2007-present)

• Oct-Nov 2018: “Rene’s Garden,” 193-photo installation for Honoring Our Ancestors by Fighting for the Future, Dia de los Muertos, SOMArts Cultural Center 

• 2017: “Mission Street [Past•Present•Future Tense],” 165-photo installation, Dia de Los Muertos group
show, SOMArts Cultural Center

• 2017: 230-image photo montage and “Sixth Street Needle Exchange” sound installation, To Be and To
Become: Mission Street group show, California Institute of Integral Studies. https://www.ciis.edu/about-
ciis/the-arts-at-ciis/arts-at-ciis-events/to-be-and-to-become-mission-streeet-san-francisco  Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38yQG-KomE

• May 2017: 4 photocollages about the incarceration, Shifting Movements: Art Inspired by Yuri Kochiyama,
Asian American Women Artists Association, SOMArts.

• Oct 2016: “ The Spirit of the Mission,” a fifty-photo installation for A Promise Not to Forget: Día de los
Muertos, SOMArts  http://www.somarts.org/shizueseigelartistinterview/

• 2011-2013: Laramie: A Gem City Atlas, collaborative art-map project with Rebecca Solnit and University
of Wyoming MFA Creative Writing Program) traveled to four venues: Univ. of Wyoming Art Museum,
Laramie, WY; Univ. of Wyoming Library; California Institute for Integral Studies and Thoreau Center for
Sustainability, San Francisco.

• 2012 solo show: Laramie Mapping Myths and Realities, Thoreau Center, San Francisco.

• 2012 solo: Ephemeral Allure; Eternal Struggle. UC Santa Barbara Women's Center.

• 2010 solo: Double Vision: A Celebration of Hybridity, UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center

• 2010: Distillations: Meditations on the Japanese American Experience, Arts & Consciousness Gallery,
John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA, 2010.

 

Work experience

• 2002-present: Writer, visual artist, cartographer, creative writing workshop facilitator on project basis

  1998-2001, Editor/Art Director, Nikkei Heritage magazine, National Japanese Historical Society

• 1995-1997. Acting Coordinator/Media Specialist, PHREDA HIV prevention project, University of California
San Francisco/Centers for Disease Control

• 1984-1991, Art Director, J. Walter Thompson, DDB Needham, Charles Schwab, Gardner, Wells
Marketing.  Clients included Chevron, Kaiser Permanente, ComputerLand, KTVU-Channel 2, Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, Wells Fargo Bank.

 

Selected Writing Workshops facilitated

• on-going monthly since 2015: Write Now! for writers of color at San Francisco Main Library, San Francisco
African American Historical & Cultural Society and National Japanese American Historical Society  (initially funded by SFAC Individual Artist Commission)

• on-going monthly since 2013: Reverie Writers

• A Place of One's Own, a Place In the World, Asian American Women Artists Association, Thoreau Center
for Sustainability,

• 2014: Writing from the Heart, San Francisco YMCA, 6-week series

• 2006-2009: Senior Asian American Women Writers, weekly, Japanese Community and Cultural Center

• 2006: Japanese American Memoir, weekly, J-Sei Senior Center, Berkeley, CA

• 2003-2004: Lasting Memories: A Memoir Group for Asian American Men, weekly, Japanese Community
and Cultural Center

 

Education

College

1981-1984: Academy of Art College, Advertising and Illustration                           

1979-1981: College of Marin, Painting and Printmaking

 

Week-Long or Multi-Week Writing Workshops

2020: Navigating Poetics, Truong Tran, Kearny Street Workshop

2020: Mendocino Coast Writers Conference

2019: Omnidawn Poetry Conference

2018: Memoir, Elmaz Abinader, VONA/Voices

2017: Prose, S. Mitchell Jackson, Atlantic Center for the Arts
          Travel, Katherine Harer, Writing Salon

2016: Writing for Artists & Activists, Faith Adiele, Writers Grotto
          Poetry Maw Shein Win, Writers Grotto

2015: Memoir, Zoe Carter, Writers Grotto

2016: Fiction with Porochista Khakpour, Atlantic Center for the Arts

2015: Residency, David Mura, VONA/Voices=

2014: Memoir, Memoir Continuation 1 & 2, Kathleen McClung, Writing Salon

2013: Memoir, Faith Adiele, VONA/Voices
          Intro to Memoir, Memoir Continuation 1 & 2, Kathleen McClung, Writing Salon,

2009: Poetry, Activist Artists Retreat, Amed, Bali, Indonesia, Genny Lim

2004: Poetry, From the Margins, Truong Tran, Intersection for the Arts,

2004: Kearny Street Workshop, Fiction, Junse Kim

2003: All-Genre, Truong Tran, Kearny Street Workshop:

2003: Memoir, Anne Finger, A Room of Her Room Writers Retreat, Ghost Ranch, NM

2002: Prose, Writing Out of the Dark, Margo Perin