Books: 

                       
A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family

Viking, October 1, 2001.
Paperback edition, Penguin/Putnam,  Sept. 1, 2002.
Winner of the Victorian Society Publication Prize and the Annual Book Award for Documentation of American Life, Colonial Dames of America

Hidden Dialogue: A discussion between Women in Japan and the United
States,

U.S. Japan Program Series, Japan Society of New York, 1993.

 The Road Through Miyama, Random House, 1989.

Paperback edition, Vintage, 1991, 1993.

Winner of the 1990 Pen/ Martha Albrand Citation for Nonfiction

(Work-in-Progress)
Toshiko Takaezu: Portrait of an Artist
A narrative on the Asian American Artist, Toshiko Takaezu
accompanied by archival photographs. Introduction by Arthur Danto.
Awarded book contract by the TT Foundation, fall 2005
                        Agent: Miriam Altshuler
                        Estimated publication date: fall 2009
           
           
   

                   
Essays in Anthologies:

“Green Tea,” Creating Nonfiction, edited by Becky Bradway
Beford/ St. Martins Press, spring 2008.

“River of Life,” in A Woman’s Passion for Travel, edited by Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael
(Traveler’s Tales Books, September 1999).

“Rice Harvest,” in  Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road, edited by Donald W. George
(Traveler’s Tales Books,  September 1999).

“ Paddling Right” in Writing Down the River, edited by Kathleen Ryan, Gretel Ehrlich                        
(Northland Press, March 1997).

Winner of the Willa Cather Literary Award for Memoir and Essay

Also  anthologized in Family Travel: The Farther You Go the Closer You Get, edited by Laura Manske
(Traveler’s Tales Books, May 1999).

“Nagata-san” excerpt from The Road Through Miyama, Maiden Voyages, Writings of Women Travelers, edited by Mary Morris,  (Vintage Books, 1993).

Translations and Poems:

                        “Black Bowl Dreaming”, anthologized in The Earth in Bloom, Meam Publishing, December 2006.

Heart of Flame   Documentary on the work of Otani Shiro, 1993.
90 minutes. Produced by NHK (Japanese public television) and Right Stuff Video                                  corporation. Japanese dialogue translated to English. 

                                                        
Audio Texts: 

THE POET'S VOICE is a 13-part series of 30-minute radio portraits, produced in conjunction               with WNYC and the Unterberg Poetry Center: Producer: Lauren Krenzel.

"Pablo Neruda,"National Public Radio, initial air date: Feb. 11, 1995.

"Anne Sexton" National Public Radio, initial air date: Feb 25, 1995.

"Gwendolyn Brooks" National Public Radio, initial air date:  March 11, 1995.

"Octavio Paz" National Public Radio, initial air date: March 18, 1995.

"Adrienne Rich" National Public Radio, initial air date: March 25, 1995.

Essays and Articles:       (Selected )

                        “Ceramics: A Wary Regard for Tradition,” Art in America, November 2007.

                        “Sun Farm” Our Town, Claverack, NY Issue #8, June 2007.

                        “Indra’s Net,” Arts and Letters (under review), read at “Giving Voice: Conference on Memoir, Trinity      College, Hartford, CT.,March 29 –31, 2007.

                        “Mary McCarthy: Story First Then Confession,” Tampa Review, volume 33, summer, 2007.

                        “Its All About Swamps: Why Wetlands Matter,” Our Town, Claverack, NY Issue #5, 2006.

                        “Hidden in Plain Sight,” Our Town, Claverack, NY Issue #4, May 2005.

“North Sixth Street,”  Garth Evans: Materials Being Catalogue, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA., Novermber 2004 – February 2005.

                        “Santa in Claverack,” Our Town, Claverack, NY Issue #3, December 2004.

                        “Home” Our Town: Claverack, NY.  Issue #2, October 2004.

                        “Everett Nack: Last of the Shad Fishermen?” Our Town Claverack, NY, issue #1,  June 2004.

                        “A Tie That Binds,” New York Archives, vol.2 no.2, Fall 2002.

“In the Hollow of His Hand,” Hudson Valley Regional Review, September 2000.

"Commuting," Columbia, School of the Arts Magazine, April 1997.

"The Road Back," Mahora, Gyosei Publishing Corporation, Tokyo, July, 1993.

"Legacy of December 7 Remains Troubling, " Columbus Dispatch, Dec 1, 1991.

"Returning," Winds,  Magazine, Spring, 1992. 

"The Chrysanthemum and the Buckeye," Ohio Magazine, Nov. 1992. (15, no.8)

"The Road Through Miyama" (cover story),  Studio Potter, Dec. 1, 1989.

"Rice Magazine: Asian Amerian Staple,"  Christian Science Monitor, "Arts and Leisure"
              July 7, 1988.

"Tourism on the Upswing in Harlem," Christian Science Monitor, "Arts and Leisure"
          Nov. 24, 1987.

"Farewell to Van Gogh," The Daily Yomiuri, Dec. 4, 1987.

"From The Vocabulary of Ugliness," The Daily Yomiuri, Nov. 29, 1987.

"Working Class Kabuki," The Daily Yomiuri, Nov. 28, 1987.

"One Person Says 'Can Do'," The Daily Yomiuri, Nov. 22, 1987.

"Van Gogh's Irises Brings 53.9 Million?" Nov. 13, 1987.

"Americans See Advantages of  Cross Cultural Training," The Daily Yomiuri,
August 8, 1987.

Book Reviews:   (Selected )

Marnie Mueller, THE CLIMATE OF THE COUNTRY and Kerri Sakamoto, THE ELECTRIC FIELD, San Jose Mercury News, Book Section, cover review, February 21, 1999.

Harriet Doerr, THE TIGER IN THE GRASS, Boston Globe, Sunday Book Section,
     Nov 26, 1995
Kathy Davidson, 36 VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI, Women's Review of Books, February, 1994.

Linda Minatoya, TALKING TO HIGH MONKS IN THE SNOW, Ploughshares, Fall, 1993.

Bonnie Friedman, WRITING AFTER DARK,  Harvard Review,  fall 1993.

Helene Cixous,  THREE STEPS ON THE LADDER OF WRITING, Harvard Review, fall 1993
.
Kate Wheeler, NOT WHERE I STARTED FROM, Boston Globe, Sunday Book Section, Aug. 8, 1993.

Diane Ackerman, THE MOON BY WHALE LIGHT, Columbus Dispatch, January 26, 1992.

Lectures and Talks:

"Pulling in the Real: A Workshop on Research Strategies, Opportunities, Challenges and Conundrums," panel organized and paper presented at the BedellConference on Nonfiction, The University of Iowa, Nov 1 - 3, 2007.

                        Kindrid  Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape – invited to deliver a lecture as part     of a panel/program on landscape, Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 9, 2007.

                        Indra’s Net, Essay presented as part of “Giving Voice: Conference on Memoir,” Trinity College, Hartford,             CT. March 29-31, 2007.

Through the Senses , a paper presented as part of a panel titled “Body as Muse”, Associated Writing Programs & Writers Conference, Austin, TX, March 2006.

Mary McCarthy: Icon Undone, a paper presented as part of a panel with Phillip Lopate and Sandi Wisenberg, titled “Mary McCarthy: A Creative Nonfiction Appreciation,” Nonfiction Now Conference, The  University of Iowa, November, 2005.

Daring Truths: The role of research in novel-writing, a panel organized and convened and paper presented at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, March 2005.

Landscape as the Confluence of Family and National Identities: A Hudson Valley Farm: Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family a paper delivered as part of a panel organized and convened with co-orgnaizer Cindy Ott at  theAmerican Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting. Panel title: “Family Farms, Wild Birds and Town Festivals: Thinking with Flora and Fauna in modern North America,”  March 2003.

Literally Nonfiction? A Writer’s Craft Talk on the role of Invention in Nonfiction Prose, a talk delivered in the Humanities Colloquium Series, Colgate University, April 3, 2001.

Talavera: Country Seat or Working Farm? a talk on the subject of farming in the romantic era landscapes of the Mid-Hudson Valley. Annual symposium on landscape for Hudson River Heritage, May 20, 2000. .

Once a Pilgrim, a lecture on Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, written for the “Images of Rural Life in Literature” series at the Morrisville Public Library, sponsored by the New York Council on the Humanities, April 26, 2000.

 Research, Research, Research, A writer’s craft talk: the Chenango Valley Writers’ Conference, July 1999.

Satsuma, a lecture and reading based on writing and research used in  The Road Through Miyama, delivered at the Rhode Island School of Design (joint sponsorship by the English department and Asian Studies Council), April 8, 1999.

In Cold Fact, a talk exploring some of the ethical and aesthetic issues of nonfiction as seen in the work of Truman Capote and others : The English department of Wichita State University, October 15, 1999.

Creative Non-fiction, Meaning Fact or Fiction or What? A Writer’s Craft Talk on Nonfiction Prose.  MFA program in creative writing at Washington University, St. Louis. November, 1998.

Factually Speaking, a writer’s craft talk: The Chenango Valley Writers’ Conference, July,1996.

Finding A Place, a talk on the teaching of Asian American Literature. Presented at the American Literature Association  Conference, June 2, 1996.

Questions of Mingei: An Apprenticeship, a talk at the Asian Art Museum, San  Francisco, April 27, 1996.