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.
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 .
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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.
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. |
