Mitsu Sundvall's bio for Kenmore Reading Series, Dec. 21st

Mitsu Akiyama Sundvall is a Japanese-American writer wannabee from Berkeley, New York City, and Seattle.  She is an Artist Trust and Seattle Arts Commission awardee, former Harper & Row editor, Seattle Times book reviewer, Hedgebrook and Edge writer programs alumna.  "Tongue-Cut Sparrows" is the family memoir she has been laboring to tell about a shotgun/samurai, an anarchist plotting to assassinate the emperor, a judo-wrestling grandmother, a Chinatown chorus girl, a genius heroin addict, and an American family in a US concentration camp.  In these stories of struggle and aspiration she hopes, as Grace Paley said about writing memoir, to save a few lives.

Mitsu Sundvall to read December 21 at Espresso Cafe in Kenmore

Please join us on Wednesday, December 21st at Espresso Cafe in Kenmore to hear Mitsu Sundvall read family stories from her evolving memoir.
  
Consider bringing a poem or two, or a page of prose for open mic.  And maybe invite a friend.  We begin our salon-like session at 6 pm with time to meet and purchase tea/coffee/desserts.  Our featured reader begins at 6:45 after open mic.