Memoir is needed now more than ever. It is critical to radically celebrate and study literature that is born of lived experiences and the artists who create it.

More than Memoir is a series I am launching to engage authors and artists in conversations that expand our understandings of political being and art. In A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE: A DAUGHTER’S RETURN TO TULE LAKE, author Tamiko Nimura confronts the overwhelming histories of family and the Japanese internment camp with deliberate artistry to transform dispossession into a bold repossession of belonging, identity, and memory.

This is the first virtual event for A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE, and it is free and open to the public. Reserve your spot! (Registration link is HERE.)

Join me and my dear friend Tamiko in conversation about her work, the journey of narrative innovation, and the challenges and gifts of writing stories that are more than memoir.

Thank you to OPAWL: Building AAPI Feminist Leadership for sponsoring this event.

BIOS:
Tamiko Nimura is an Asian American creative nonfiction writer and public historian living in Tacoma, Washington. She writes from an interdisciplinary space at the intersection of her love of literature, grounding in American ethnic studies, inherited wisdom from teachers and activists, and storytelling through history. Her memoir is titled A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE: A DAUGHTER’S RETURN TO TULE LAKE (University of Washington Press).

Lisa Factora-Borchers is a Filipinx American author, editor, spiritual director, and activist. Lisa is the editor of DEAR SISTER: LETTERS FROM SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE (AK Press). Her work is widely published and she has served in numerous roles as editorial director, publisher, and contributing writer in the publishing world. Lisa is currently working on her next book, a literary memoir about political consciousness and diasporic faith in middle America.