Nathaniel J. Campbell lives and writes in Fairfield, Iowa, but he dreams of being able to spend more time in Little Tokyo. He has been published over a dozen times in print and online in venues including Lincoln Memorial University's Drafthorse Literary Journal and the New School's Eleven and A Half Journal. He works for a small university press and loves reading and writing in his free time.

Updated October 2015

Don Fenton received a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and a MA in Humanities with an emphasis in Aesthetics from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently working on a collection of short stories that reflect multicultural influences and their intersection within American culture, which mirrors his own global upbringing as Japanese-Mexican American. Don currently teaches English as a Second Language in
Dallas, Texas. When he is not teaching, he is writing.

Updated August 2014

Rubén “Funkahuatl” Guevara is a native Angelino and over the past 50 years has worked as a musician, record producer, journalist, poet, film actor, playwright-performance-theater artist, teacher, and activist. He is a UCLA graduate in World Arts & Cultures and lives and works in Boyle Heights. www.tantrikfunk.net.

Updated October 2014

After 15 years of working life in Tokyo, I finally achieved my dream of studying at a graduate school in the United States. I first went to Little Tokyo to shop for Japanese ingredients, but as I learned more about the history of Japanese Americans, I became interested in the drama behind it. Since then, I have visited the Japanese American National Museum and read documents, and I try to learn whenever I can. My specialty is psychology, so I hope to continue to learn about different types of life and understand the human heart.

(Updated August 2015)

Sarena Kuhn attends Los Alamitos High School. She enjoys learning, writing, and going on adventures. With a Japanese American mother and a Caucasian father, she is proud to be “hapa” and values the importance of preserving and sharing culture.  She has strong passions for literature and working with others. 

Updated September 2016

Kent is a second generation Japanese American attorney and part-time writer. In his free time he likes to enjoy all that Southern California has to offer, including perpetual 72 degree weather, sandy beaches, and Dodger baseball. He lives in Glendale, California with his girlfriend and their two precocious cats.

Updated August 2015

Jan Morrill was born and (mostly) raised in California. Her mother, a Buddhist Japanese American, was an internee at Tule Lake and Topaz during World War II. Her father, a Southern Baptist redhead of Irish descent, retired from the Air Force. Jan’s award-winning historical fiction, The Red Kimono, and other short stories and memoir essays reflect growing up in a multicultural, multi-religious, multi-political background.

While working on the sequel to The Red Kimono, Jan enjoys conducting workshops on writing and speaking about the history of the Japanese American internment. For more information, please visit Jan’s website at www.janmorrill.com.

Updated June 2015

Kiyoshi Parker was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He shares heritages with two countries: America and Japan, and spends time between the two whenever possible. He taught himself Japanese in his late teens. He has some critical success as an author with his novelette, The Death of Death, currently available on Amazon. His other full length novella, Autonomously Yours, is also available on Amazon, and he is currently working on several more short stories and another full length fantasy novel. He enjoys graphic design, television, and film.

Updated June 2015

Chester Sakamoto is a self-proclaimed bibliophile and avid reader. A 26-year-old native of Los Angeles, he is currently in pursuit of an M.A. in English with an emphasis in American Literature. He enjoys singing, food, cinema, and frequent trips to independent bookstores.

Updated July 2015

Born in Saitama Prefecture. Graduated from Kokugakuin University in 2002. Works in accounting and general affairs, and writes in his free time. Currently, in addition to novels, he also writes scripts for rakugo, and hopes that one day his works will see the light of day.

(Updated January 2016)

Jerome Stueart is an Ohio-based fiction writer whose work has been published in Geist, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Joyland, and other journals and anthologies. He is the co-editor of Wrestling With Gods, a speculative fiction anthology that looks at faith, and of Imaginarium 4: the Best Canadian Speculative Writing. His first novel, One Nation Under Gods, re-imagines a U.S. History with “divine help,” and is due out November 2016. He writes, paints, and sketches and lives with a bear in Vandalia, OH. Find him at jeromestueart.com.

Updated August 2015

I am currently a senior at Temescal Canyon High School and will be attending Soka University of America this fall. While I hope to pursue a career in speech language pathology, I also want to continue writing in congruence to my studies. I am a very proud Cambodian American. My father arrived in California in the 1970s to escape the Khmer Rouge, and my mother in the 1990s. My parents came to America with nothing but a willingness to learn a language and culture they didn’t yet know, and seeing this dedication as a young child made me grow into loving reading and writing.

Updated September 2015

Born in 1936. Mother of three. Worked in the accounting department of San Joquin County, California for 30 years. Founded the poetry magazine "Koncho" in 2002. Currently, 103 issues have been published. Published works in magazines such as "Heisei", Nikkan Sun, "Poem Town", and "Nihon Futurism". Poem collections include "Milky Way" and "Patchwork Voice". Edited "Koncho 100th Issue Commemorative Selection".

(Updated September 2015)

Hans Weidman is a financial analyst in Los Angeles, California. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from UCLA.

Updated September 2015