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Mia Ante is a 3 rd generation Filipina/Chinese/Spanish American-San Francisco native.   She has been creating art for as long as she can remember, and has been making jewelry since the age of 7. Mia has always had a calling to work with beads and materials from around the world for it's their flavor that makes each piece unique, thus blessed with love and divine energy.   All of her work involves cowries, for she speaks through them during her expression; cowries represent birth and fertility throughout the world.

Hardboiled is a highly organized, take-no-prisoners, paramilitary journalistic juggernaut based at UC (United Corporation of) Berkeley. We live under self-imposed martial law to bring you the best in political rabblerousing, community muckraking, and pop culture machinations in the Bay Area and the world. We run a finely-honed machine that eats rusted nails for breakfast and lives and breathes information intelligence all day. For more information please visit hardboiled.berkeley.edu

Matthew Harrison was raised in Hemet, California.   He attended Pomona College in Claremont, where he earned his B.A. in Studio Art.   Upon graduation he was a recipient of the Freeman Fellowship to Asia for his self-directed project to travel, study, and create art in East Asia.   He spent the following year in Taiwan, Japan, and mainland China, while developing his own body of artwork and the Firecracker books. His t-shirt designs have been used by bands such as The Movielife, I Am the Avalanche, and Speechwriters LLC.   He spent the past year participating in the In Search of Roots program sponsored by the Chinese Culture Center, researching his family lineage and traveling to his ancestral village in China.   For the past four years he has taught at-risk high school students in L.A. County and the Bay Area, and he recently accepted a seat at U.C. Hastings College of the Law.

Derek Kirk Kim - for more information, please visit www.lowbright.com.

Hellen Jo is a newly minted college dropout who wipes boogers on the floor and enjoys the taste of plain, honey-less Cheerios. She draws, writes, Xeroxes, screen-prints, staples, and folds her own shit, which includes the horror comic, Paralysis: A Romance , and the new serial comic, Blister . Her website is http://hellen.gq.nu .

Amy Lee is an artist from South Pasadena currently living and working  in the Bay Area.  Amy has been drawing  since she was three years old, painting since she was thirteen, and making  zines since she was twenty-three.  Her  paintings range from self-portraits to fantastical works with horned  creatures.   After graduating from UC  Berkeley with a double major in art and architecture, she moved to San Francisco where she  currently lives as an artist.  In  addition, Amy Lee produces zines and illustrations.  Amy Lee is also interested in bookmaking and  has produced a number of artist books.  She  is part of the arts and crafts trio "Catnip Dream" with Christina Steurer and  Andrea Lofthouse.

Lark Pien - for more information, please visit www.larkpien.com.

Jason Shiga - for more information, please visit www.shigabooks.com.

Oakland-based painter Charlise Tiee uses oils and acrylics to all manner of ill-purpose, challenging media representations with whimsy and humor. She is particularly interested in the intersection between language and imagery. For the past few years she has been both the brain and brawn behind the illustration and craft website Snailwing, which is updated weekly, rain or shine.

Thuy Tran is an artist who re-sees beauty.   Her pieces involve fragments of mundane objects in unexpected juxtapositions which are at once bold, playful, confusing, honest, and ironic.   She creates from a place of not-knowing, and achieves grace and surrender in her art.   thuy resides in San Francisco, where she practices doing as being.

Regina Marie Vista has always had a fascination for tiny, shiny, colorful things. Jewelry makes her happy.   Her boyfriend took note of this when he purchased her beading classes as a gift in 1999. The pieces she made for friends and family started getting a lot of attention.   What was a hobby turned into a small business, Mimosa Studio.   Mimosa is a reference to her favorite magnolia flower.   Each piece of jewelry is handcrafted with thought to color, light, and texture. She uses semi-precious stones, shells, bone, vintage jewelry, and found pieces (sea glass and stones) in her jewelry.   Her inspiration comes from nature, art, and an eclectic group of friends and family. Her jewelry can be found at local fairs, SF boutiques such as Iris, Picnic, Adorna Bella, Artist Xchange, and online at www.mimosastudiosf.com .

Patricia Wakida is the proprietor of wasabi press, a tiny green Chandler and Price platen letterpress stashed away in her garage studio in Oakland. Patricia cut her teeth in the book arts and printing business as an apprentice papermaker in Gifu, Japan, and with letterpress printer and hand bookbinders, the Arts and Crafts Press, in Berkeley. Her whimsical linoleum block prints, letterpress books and other ephemera have appeared in exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center, SOMArts Gallery, New Langton Arts, the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Main Public Library, Needles & Pens, Deep Roots Urban teahouse, and Post, Poster, Postest in Tokyo. She currently serves on the board of the San Francisco Center for the Book and is a TA at the Mills College Book Arts program.

Anthony Wu uses art and comics to escape his dark past.

Danielle Yamamoto is a fourth generation Chinese-Japanese American. She is a nighttime writer, blogger and voracious reader. By day she works for an organic produce company. Raised on the outskirts of the Mojave desert in southern California, she currently resides in San Francisco. She misses her family, the Venice Beach boardwalk, and the Japanese pastry shop Fugetsudo in Los Angeles. Danielle writes two zines-- Femmetopia , which is primarily about high femme gender identity and her experience of her partner's transition from female to male, and Cherry Blossom, Cherry Pie.

Gene Yang began publishing comic books under the name Humble Comics in 1996. In 1997, he got the Xeric Grant for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks. (If you're interested in creating comics yourself, check out the Xeric Foundation. They're a great organization!) Since then he's written and drawn a number of stories in comics. In addition to cartooning, he teaches computer science at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California. He currently lives in Fremont, California with his lovely wife and son. Visit www.humblecomics.com.

Annie Yu is 18 years old and has participated in Writerscorps workshops for four years. She had written the zine Nonsensical for four years and has attended the National Book Foundation's Summer Writing Camp in 2004 and 2005. She loves to receive mail and rides on buses to eavesdrop on conversations as well as to see how strangers intersect through our lives daily.