
Mia Nakaji Monnier and Cari Yasuno saw the press release we sent the Rafu Shimpo, the Los Angeles Japanese Daily News and asked their boss if they could attend the conference. They came on the Saturday of HNA and wrote an article about their experience, interviewing Stan Forrester, Michael Dylan Welch, and others as well as attending sessions like the Einbond renku reading.
Their article can be read here:
http://www.rafu.com/2013/09/a-tiny-collection-of-words/
(left: Mia Nakaji Monnier)
Mia and Cari had so much fun at HNA that they came to last Saturday's Southern California Haiku Study Group Workshop at the Pacific Asia Museum and plan to become regulars.
Mia Nakaji Monnier is a graduate student in creative nonfiction at the University of Southern California. She writes for the Rafu Shimpo and Hyphen Magazine, and is an editorial assistant at Kaya Press. In two and a half decades she's lived in twelve cities and towns, including Middlebury, Vermont and Kyoto, Japan. She hopes to keep exploring.
Their article can be read here:
http://www.rafu.com/2013/09/a-tiny-collection-of-words/
(left: Mia Nakaji Monnier)
Mia and Cari had so much fun at HNA that they came to last Saturday's Southern California Haiku Study Group Workshop at the Pacific Asia Museum and plan to become regulars.
Mia Nakaji Monnier is a graduate student in creative nonfiction at the University of Southern California. She writes for the Rafu Shimpo and Hyphen Magazine, and is an editorial assistant at Kaya Press. In two and a half decades she's lived in twelve cities and towns, including Middlebury, Vermont and Kyoto, Japan. She hopes to keep exploring.

Cari Yasuno is a graphic designer and the social media manager for The Rafu Shimpo. She is a haiku enthusiast and created mainichihaiku.tumblr.com with her writing partner. She enjoys British comedy and digging through antiques for old cameras and vintage kitchen tools.