Yuri Kageyama

Yuri Kageyama is a poet and writer of bilingual and bicultural upbringing, born in Japan and growing up in Maryland, Tokyo and Alabama.

Her works have appeared in many literary anthologies and magazines, including “Y’Bird,” “Greenfield Review,” "San Francisco Stories," "On a Bed of Rice," "Breaking Silence: an Anthology of Asian American Poets," “POW WOW: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience _ Short Fiction from Then to Now,” "Other Side River," “Beyond Rice,” "Yellow Silk," "Stories We Hold Secret," “KONCH” and "MultiAmerica." Her film “Talking Taiko” (2010), directed by Yoshiaki Tago, documents her thoughts on writing, family and life.

She has read with Ishmael Reed, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Geraldine Kudaka, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Winchester Nii Tete, Russel Baba, Seamus Heaney, Takenari Shibata, Shozu Ben, Keiji Kubo and many other artists. She is a graduate of Cornell University and holds an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
http://yurikageyama.com

Updated August 2011

Stories from This Author

becky nao

Aug. 13, 2011 • Yuri Kageyama

becky nao kicked me so my shins turned purple taunted me daily mimicking my voice becky nao believed there was only one slot for an Asian girl in fourth grade classbecky nao the white girls weren't rivalsonly me, the one other Oriental girl, becky naoslit eyes and black hair, good grades, neat handwritingbecky naoif i fell dead, gone, wiped out,she could be that survivor yellow girlbecky naowho's going to tell us apart?so there can be only one of us becky …

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