Satsuki Ina, author of The Poet and the Silk Girl (published by Heyday) and Ellie Yang Camp, author of Louder Than the Lies (also published by Heyday) kick off Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a very special conversation presented by Litquake: “History and Healing: An AAPI Heritage Month Event.” They are joined in conversation by Karen Fang and Helen Hsu, and the event is moderated by Dora Calott Wang.

San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street San Francisco. Book sales coordinated by Eastwind Books.

Ellie Yang Camp is an artist and educator from the Bay Area. The proud daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she has been a high-school history teacher, a full-time parent, a calligrapher, an anti-racist educator, and now an author. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in education from Stanford.

Karen Fang is a film scholar and visual culture critic who writes and speaks for museums and film festivals around the world. Known for previous books about Hong Kong cinema and nineteenth-century British interest in exotic objects, Fang often writes about the intersection of eastern and western aesthetics. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Hyperallergic, Nikkei Asia, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is also a prominent contributor to The Engines of Our Ingenuity, a long-running, widely distributed public radio series about science and innovation, where her episodes always focus on the visual arts. Committed to amplifying the contributions of underrepresented creatives, her newest book is a biography of Chinese immigrant artist, centenarian, and Disney legend Tyrus Wong.

Helen H. Hsu is a clinical psychologist and the director of outreach at Stanford University Counseling and Psychological Services. Hsu spent twenty years in community-based clinics throughout the Bay Area. Her Healing Trauma Workbook for Asian Americans is published by New Harbinger. She is the past president of the American Psychological Association Div. 45 (Society for the Study of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity) and a past president and fellow of the Asian American Psychological Association.

Satsuki Ina is a psychotherapist specializing in community trauma. She helps victims of oppression to claim not only their voice but also their power to transform the systems that have oppressed them. Her activism has included co-founding Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct-action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites. Ina has produced two documentaries about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Children of the Camps and From a Silk Cocoon. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, Democracy Now! and the documentary And Then They Came for Us. A professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, she lives in the Bay Area.

Dora Calott Wang (moderator) is the author of The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s Reflections on Healing in a Changing World (Riverhead Penguin Random House), a heartfelt literary memoir, and eulogy to her noble profession of medicine, as it becomes a for-profit industry. Wang has won a Lannan Foundation Writers Residency, the Pfeiffer Visiting Scholar Award from Stanford University, and a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. She earned a MA in English literature at UC Berkeley, and is a notable alumnus of the Community of Writers. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, and a member of the Executive Committee of Yale Alumni in Medicine. Wang was elected to two terms as president of the American Psychiatric Association Caucus of Asian American Psychiatrists. In 2006, she led a political campaign that changed the New Mexico state constitution, removing a section aimed at forbidding Asians and persons of color from owning land.