Susan Ito

Susan Kiyo Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by the Ohio State University Press, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen, The Bellevue Literary Review, Agni, Guernica, and elsewhere.  She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, The Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook and Blue Mountain Center. Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater and her one-person show, The Ice Cream Gene, was performed throughout the US.

• Memoir
• Asian American literature
• Multiracial literature

• Craft of Writing
• Japanese Americans in New York
• Reproductive stigma

• Mills College, MFA in Creative Writing, 1994
• Ithaca College, BS in Physical Therapy, 1982

• Assistant Adjunct Professor of Writing, Mills College/Northeastern University
• Adjunct Professor of Writing, Bay Path University 
• Instructor of Creative Writing, UC Berkeley Extension

• Shortlist, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing 2024
• 2024 Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for 2023
• Quigley Fellowship for Research 2024-2025, Mills College
• Robert & Ann Wert Professorship 2023-2026

• I Would Meet You Anywhere, Ohio State University Press, 2023
• A Ghost At Heart's Edge, Stories & Poems of Adoption, North Atlantic Books, 1999