{"id":6224,"date":"2009-05-21T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=6224"},"modified":"2009-05-21T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:49:00","slug":"profile-jet-alum-author-suzanne-kamata-interviewed-by-jet-alum-author-cristy-burne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/21\/profile-jet-alum-author-suzanne-kamata-interviewed-by-jet-alum-author-cristy-burne\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile:  JET alum author Suzanne Kamata interviewed by JET alum author Cristy Burne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/06\/jet-alum-cristy-burne-wins-award-for-childrens-literature\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leapfrogpress.com\/images\/Suzanne_Kamata_thumb.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne Kamata<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong>**********************<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/06\/jet-alum-cristy-burne-wins-award-for-childrens-literature\/\">Cristy Burne<\/a> (Hyogo-ken, Kawanishi-shi, 1998-2000)<\/strong>, author of the soon-to-be-released children&#8217;s book <em><strong>Takeshita Demons<\/strong><\/em>, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/cristyburne.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/21\/american-writer-in-japan-suzanne-kamata-on-diversity-writing-and-winning-the-indie-book-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">really nice interview on her blog<\/a> with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/19\/jet-alum-author-suzanne-kamata\/\">Suzanne Kamata<\/a> (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90)<\/strong>, who lives in Japan and is the editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literarymama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LiteraryMama<\/strong><\/a> as well as the author of books such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/62-9780972898492-0\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Losing Kei<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/61-9781932279337-2\" target=\"_blank\">Call Me Okaasan:\u00a0 Adventures in Multicultural Mothering<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>(which recently won several prizes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebookawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2009 Indie Book Awards<\/a> including the Grand Prize for non-fiction overall).<\/p>\n<p>(For all you <strong>translators<\/strong> out there lookng for an interesting project, you may notice Suzanne&#8217;s comment that none of her books have been translated into Japanese yet.\u00a0 Perhaps a future JET alum collaboration to come?)<\/p>\n<p>Go here for the full interview:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cristyburne.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/21\/american-writer-in-japan-suzanne-kamata-on-diversity-writing-and-winning-the-indie-book-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cristyburne.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/21\/american-writer-in-japan-suzanne-kamata-<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter_production\/profile_images\/109660477\/Cristy2_bigger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristy Burne<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cristyburne.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/21\/american-writer-in-japan-suzanne-kamata-on-diversity-writing-and-winning-the-indie-book-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">on-diversity-writing-and-winning-the-indie-book-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Also, another JET alum writer, <strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/motherlogue.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liz Sheffield<\/a> (Hokkaio-ken, Sapporo-shi, 1993-95), <\/strong>has an <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/motherlogue.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/05\/interview-with-suzanne-kamata\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Suzanne<\/a> about the book on her blog <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/motherlogue.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">motherlogue.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To learn more about Suzanne you can visit her website at <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.suzannekamata.com');\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.suzannekamata.com<\/a> or her blog at <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com<\/a> (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/gaijinmama.wordpress.com\/feed\" target=\"_blank\">RSS feed here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/kabiliana.blogspot.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/kabiliana.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/diversity-makes-us-more-curious.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read an interview with Suzanne Kamata<\/a> on children\u2019s books and diversity by the blog <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.kabiliana.blogspot.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kabiliana.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kabiliana<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the <a href=\"..\/library\/authorsbooks\/\">Authors\/Books section<\/a> of the <a href=\"..\/library\/\">JetWit Library<\/a> to see a complete list of JET alum authors (at least to JetWit\u2019s knowledge).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>********************** Cristy Burne (Hyogo-ken, Kawanishi-shi, 1998-2000), author of the soon-to-be-released children&#8217;s book Takeshita Demons, has a really nice interview on her blog with Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90), who lives in Japan and is the editor of LiteraryMama as well as the author of books such as Losing Kei and Call Me Okaasan:\u00a0 Adventures in Multicultural 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