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David Mura
David Mura is a poet, memoirist, essayist, novelist, and playwright. He’s written two memoirs, Where the Body Meets Memory and Turning Japanese, which won the Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book. His novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the John Gardner Fiction Prize, and Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. His books of poetry include the National Poetry Contest winner After We Lost Our Way and The Colors of Desire, which won a Carl Sandburg Literary Award. He teaches creative writing and speaks on issues of race and Asian American identity. He received the 2019 Kay Sexton Award for contributions to Minnesota’s literary community.
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A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing (University of Georgia Press, 2018)
The Last Incantations (Northwestern University Press, 2014)
Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (Coffee House Press, 2008)
Angels for the Burning (Boa Editions Ltd., 2004)
Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto & Mr. Moto: Poetry & Identity, Poets on Poetry series (University of Michigan Press, 2002)
Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality & Identity (Anchor/Doubleday, 1996)
The Colors of Desire (Anchor/Doubleday, 1995)
Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991)
After We Lost Our Way (E.P. Dutton, 1989)
A Male Grief: Notes on Pornography and Addiction (Milkweed Editions, 1987)
