Claire Light: APAture 2005 Featured Artist in Literary (Photo Courtesy of the artist)

Claire Light is currently seeking a master of fine arts degree in fiction writing at San Francisco State University. She studied creative writing as an undergraduate at University of Arizona. The former program manager of Asian American arts organization Kearny Street Workshop (KSW), she has taught creative writing at SFSU as a TA, as a writer-in-residence at School of the Arts, and still teaches writing classes at KSW. She is a founder and a senior editor of nonprofit Asian American magazine Hyphen Magazine (www.hyphenmagazine.com) and has published her stories and articles in McSweeney's, Hyphen, Other, Sensor, Viet Tide, and various online and print zines. Previous community arts work has included organizing hapa open mic with Hapa Issues Forum; serving on the advisory committee of The Mission Movie; and most recently serving on the curatorial committee at nonprofit art space The LAB.