Poet Runner

Poet Iris De Anda and Poet and runner Noriko Nakada
Iris De Anda a Guanaca Tapatia poet, speaker & musician who has been featured with KPFK & KPFA Pacifica Radio, organized with Academy of American Poets, performed at Los Angeles
Latino Book Festival, Feria del Libro Tijuana, Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba and is named one of Today's Revolutionary Women of Color. Author of Codeswitch: Fires from Mi Corazon & Roots of Redemption: 

Noriko Nakada is a multi-racial Asian American who creates fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art to capture the hidden stories she has been told not to talk about. 

Publications include her memoir series: Through Eyes Like Mine, Overdue Apologies, and I Tried. Through Eyes Like Mine was shortlisted for the 2040 Book Award. Excerpts, essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in Catapult, Meridian, Kartika, Hippocampus, and Linden Avenue.

She is a member of the leadership team for Women Who Submit, an organization empowering women and non-binary writers to submit their work for publication.  

Works in progress include Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop: One Family's Struggle with Mental Illness, and Rice Paper Superheroes, a historical novel about a Japanese American family during World War II.

She has completed three LA Marathons with her school's Students Run LA team and loves examining intersections between sport and literature.
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