{"id":5244,"date":"2009-04-19T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T14:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2009-04-19T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T14:33:12","slug":"jet-alum-author-suzanne-kamata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/19\/jet-alum-author-suzanne-kamata\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum author Suzanne Kamata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\/images\/suekamata-390-Losing_kei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Just found out about another JET alum author out there in the JETAA-sphere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\" target=\"_blank\">Suzanne (Borsum) Kamata<\/a> (Tokushima, 1988-90)<\/strong> is the author of the novel\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\/losing_kei_63838.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Losing Kei<\/a> <\/em>(Leapfrog Press, 2008), a picture book, <em>Playing for Papa<\/em> (Topka Books, 2008) and the editor of three anthologies &#8211; <em>Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering <\/em>(Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2009),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\/love_you_to_pieces__creative_writers_on_raising_a_child_with_special_needs_63839.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs<\/em><\/a> (Beacon Press,\u00a02008) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\/the_broken_bridge__fiction_from_expatriates_in_literary_japan_63837.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan<\/em><\/a> (Stone Bridge Press, 1997). Her articles, essays, and short\u00a0stories\u00a0have\u00a0appeared in over 100 publications, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times. She is also the 2008 recipient of the SCBWI Magazine Merit\u00a0Award for Fiction. She is currently fiction editor\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/literarymama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">literarymama.com<\/a>, and provides manuscript critiques on a freelance basis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To learn more about Suzanne you can visit her website at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com<\/a> or her blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com\/feed\" target=\"_blank\">RSS feed here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kabiliana.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/diversity-makes-us-more-curious.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read an interview with Suzanne Kamata<\/a> on children&#8217;s books and diversity by the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabiliana.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kabiliana<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/authorsbooks\/\">Authors\/Books section<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/\">JetWit Library<\/a> to see a complete list of JET alum authors (at least to JetWit&#8217;s knowledge).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found out about another JET alum author out there in the JETAA-sphere&#8230; Suzanne (Borsum) Kamata (Tokushima, 1988-90) is the author of the novel\u00a0Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008), a picture book, Playing for Papa (Topka Books, 2008) and the editor of three anthologies &#8211; Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2009),\u00a0Love You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,40,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-website","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1mA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}