Lisa Hosokawa
She | Her | Hers - They | Them | Theirs
Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Artist Statement
A second-generation atomic bomb survivor, I am drawn to interrupted journeys and to fiction and games finding innovative ways to evoke compassion for difference, resonance in likeness, and relief in agency. Player agency in an imagined world has served for me as balm and tonic for the ache and burnout of powerlessness. The landscapes of my own narratives are of lived and inherited trauma, where I excavate terrain pressed flat by shame and the impulse to survive. These fault lines I fill instead with lacquer and powdered gold, so they may better guide me in the writing, and others in the reading, home.
| Image Description: Lisa Hosokawa at age 6, a child of Japanese and white heritage sticking out her tongue from a gap in her lower teeth. She stands in front of an inland sea in a purple My Little Pony sweater, her tangled, curly hair in a breeze. |
Artist Bio
Born in a town halfway between a US military base and Hiroshima, Lisa Hosokawa is a mixed-roots writer of stories about belonging and resistance in hostile worlds. Her translations and award-winning short fiction have appeared in multiple anthologies, magazines, and books. An alum of Susan O’Conner’s the Narrative Department and a Weymouth Center fellow, she develops text-based games and avoids talking, teacup rides, and parties without cats.
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