Anoosh Jorjorian writes on the politics of parenting. Her work has been published at Salon, Time.com, the Huffington Post, and Black Girl Dangerous, and she blogs at www.aranamama.com. Follow her on Twitter @aranamama.
Liz Dwyer is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, and mom. She has written about race, parenting, and social justice for several national websites and print publications and on her own blog, Los Angelista. Dwyer is also a breast cancer survivor and believes in fangirling about Depeche Mode.
Chicano and Caucasian, James Tyner grew up in Los Angeles and in Fresno, California. His awards include the 2008 Coal Hill Review chapbook contest, the Larry Levis poetry prize, the Ernesto Trejo Poetry Prize, and the Andres Montoya Scholarship. He has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Working Poet, New America, and the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. His poems “At a Barbeque for R.C.” and “After the Artichoke Harvest” were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Tyner is Fresno, California’s first poet laureate.
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Writing the Mixed Experience Professionally
Erika Hayasaki is the author of The Death Class: A True Story About Life (Simon & Schuster 2014).
She is an assistant professor of Literary Journalism at the University of California, Irvine, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and Newsweek. A former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, she has published more than 900 articles in the Times and other publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles magazine, Time, and Glamour.
She is the author of two e-book Kindle Singles: Drowned by Corn (2014) and Dead or Alive (2012). Hayasaki is half-Japanese and half-white (English/German), married to a Jamaican-born Brooklynite. They are raising their 2-year-old Jamaican-Hapa daughter in Los Angeles.
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