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Mitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan in 1923. She grew up in Seattle, Washington. In 1942, when Mitsuye was 17, her family was among 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to concentration camps for the duration of the war. She received her BA from the New York University, and her MA from University of Chicago, and an honorary doctorate from Simmons College.
Camp Notes and Other Writings, a combined edition of her first two books, was most recently published by Rutgers University Press in 1998. She is the founder and coordinator of MultiCultural Women Writers. Mitsuye, at age 95, will release her latest work, Full Circle, New and Selected Poems, in June, 2019.
Updated February 2019