“i’ve burnt all the holy pages i used to carry / but poems flare in my heart” – ikkyu

Photographer: Tiffany Eng

Kenji Liu is a 1.5 generation Japanese-born Taiwanese American expatriate of New Jersey suburbia. His writing arises from his work as an activist, educator and cultural worker.

Kenji’s California Book Award-nominated poetry chapbook You Left Without Your Shoes was published by Finishing Line Press (2009), available on Amazon.com. His writing has appeared in Tea Party Magazine, Kartika Review, and the 2009 Intergenerational Writer’s Workshop online anthology Flick of My Tongue. His “Poem to Myself as a Newborn” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kenji was a presenting literary artist at APAture 2009, a multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American art festival. He will be the new poetry editor at Kartika Review starting with issue 7 and is working on a multi-genre full-length collection of poetry, prose and visual art.

Kenji is a freelance graphic designer and also holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies. When not writing, he paints, boulders, chases sunshine and hangs out with puppies. His biggest writing pet peeve is when people don’t know the difference between its and it’s.

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For inquiries, please email: liu-san [at] hotmail [dot] com