Author: Author Shizue Seigel

Shizue Seigel is a San Francisco writer and visual artist who writes out of her experience as a Japanese American Sansei born soon after her family’s release from the American concentration camps of World War II. She grew up in segregated Baltimore, Occupied Japan, and California farm labor camps and skid row. She is a three-time VONA fellow, twice associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and three-time recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Artist grants. Her eight publications include the anthologies Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color,Civil Liberties United; Endangered Species, Enduring Values; and Standing Strong Fillmore & Japantown ( featuring 300+ BIPOC writers and artists), the 11-part mini publication series Talking to Strangers, and the nonfiction In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment and My First Hundred Years: The Memoirs of Nellie Nakamura. Her prose and poetry have appeared in sPARKLE + bLINK, Soundings East, Eleven Eleven, Away Journal, Persimmon Tree, and many anthologies, most recently (Her)oicis: Women’s Lived Experience of the Pandemic, We’ve Been Too Patient : Stories from Radical Mental Health,Your Golden Gate Still Shines, and All the Women in My Family Sing. https://www.shizueseigel.com/