I am a hapa sansei adoptee living in the San Francisco Bay Area with my spouse, my nisei mother, my two daughters and two dogs. I teach, write and run a family camp for adoptive families with children of color, through an organization called Pact. I co-edited the anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books) and am currently the fiction co-editor at Literary Mama. I also write a monthly column there called “Life in the Sandwich.”
You may contact me at susan@susanito.com.
September 12, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Your blog is cool. I am adding it to my links.
September 23, 2006 at 7:39 pm
I miss the bay area
September 25, 2006 at 12:48 am
Hello Susan:
I have been thinking about you. I was a student in your UC extension writing workshop in the Spring of 2000.
A piece I wrote for the class, which I called,”Scottish Hospitality,” is to be published, in Scotland, in the publication of the Scottish Language Society. The publication is called “Lallans.”
I rewrote the story completely in my own dialect.
A google search brought me to you and your blog. I enjoy reading it!
We had our kitchen remodelled this summer and I wrote a blog, with pictures, to share with family and friends. I’ve made a link in the “Website” box.
I’m excited to tell you that my birthmother is planning to visit me in March for a few days. She and my half-sister are to visit family in New Zealand and they will make a side trip to see me on their way home!
Best wishes,
Margaret
October 17, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Hi Susan–
I got your comment on my blog last week, and finally today took the time to trace a few links and figure out who you are! It’s flattering to know that in these fledgling stages of the blog, people I don’t know are already reading it. At any rate, what I found interesting is that you teach a class I almost signed up for–the MFA redux at UC Extension. I also went through a phase of reading Literary Mama pretty regularly, even though I don’t have kids. (Is that weird?) So…small world. Anyway, I just wanted to give a shout out and thank you for your comment. I may check back to do some adoption research of my own….
Meanwhile, got another rejection letter today. And I’m not celebrating–it was from Chronicle. For some reason I thought they’d take the story. HA! Oh well.
Cheers,
Eliza Amos
October 21, 2006 at 2:15 am
Hello Susan,
I just discovered your blog when I was looking under Shepherd Canyon Books tonight–which is the name of my publishing company. It appears that we are neighbors in Montclair. Check out our website at http://www.backpack45.com, you’ll find out that we also share interests in hiking and writing.
Let’s chat some time. Do you still do the readings in your home?
Susan Alcorn
April 21, 2007 at 1:37 pm
What a wonderful blog. I just discovered it and look forward to reading more.
Thank you for providing thought-provoking topics.
Maria
June 11, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I’m so glad that you posted a message to the Hedgebrook in California Group. I stayed in Cedar in Fall 2003. Sigh. Thank you for this blog. I just began reading it tonight and know that I will continue to do so. Perhaps I’ll be inspired to be post to my own blogs a little more consistently. That is, between writing and revising poems and working on my fiction. Oh yeah, and eating and sleeping and working.
July 20, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Hey, Susan!
Your blog is super. I just put up my own site and have linked to you. Keep up the great work!
Melanie
September 23, 2007 at 10:40 am
I am sorting my RSS feeds into folders, and can’t decide whether to put you into my “adoption” folder or my “anti-racism” folder.
but good for you for being both!
(and I am soooooooo not one to talk about unfocused blogging, as my own blog covers a dozen different topics . . . )
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March 26, 2008 at 10:39 am
Can I entice you over to my Blog Book Tours Yahoo! group as a potential blog book tour host? You have such a nice blog, and would be a good model blogger for other authors. There’s a link at my host blog:
http://blogbooktours.blogspot.com
Dani