Joanna Sit

Joanna Sit has taught literature and creative writing at Brooklyn College, NYU and Medgar Evers College. Her work has appeared in Pearl, Context South, The Ledge, Mudfish, and other literary journals. Her long poem, “Bitten by an Unusual fly,” was recently included in the anthology Monologues From The Road, published by Heinemann Press in New Hampshire. She has read at the Knitting Factory, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Dixon Place, La Mama La Galleria, the 11th Street Bar, and other venues in New York City. She is currently looking for a publisher for her new book of poems, East to East.

Writing Poetry: The Asian American Experience

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WRITING FROM EXPERIENCE: THE ASIAN-AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW I write from my experience, but I distill and shape events so that they add up to coherent stories. My sources are memories, life situations and occasionally dreams, all having to do with growing up as the child of mixed-race parents in rural America and later moving … Read more