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
May 28, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Hey Susan!
I am getting excited about Pact Camp 2008. I can’t wait to see you again and hang out with all those cool kids and grown-ups who were adopted! And their wonderful and supportive multiracial families!
Later..
JR
July 9, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I came across your blog from I don’t know where — that’s the fun of the internet, don’t you think? I live in Brisbane, Australia.
Cheers
Kim
November 15, 2008 at 6:46 am
Thanks for the comment the other day over at my blog. If you’re interested, I tagged you for a book meme:
http://sandwiched.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/the-book-meme-page-56-nearest-book/
February 25, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Well what do you know. Blogging *really* works – I found you because I typed in “poems about parenthood.” It happens to be a big part of what I do as a published author -there is an entire section in my collection “Where the Butterflies Go” about Family, so I’m just thrilled to have found this blog and Literary Mama, too. I’ll be in touch, please check out my blog too.
Cheers,
HGS
February 26, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Hi Heather Grace, welcome to ReadingWritingLiving! yes, blogging DOES work! I’m looking forward to reading your work.
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