Anne Liu Kellor

Anne Liu Kellor is a multiracial Chinese American writer, teacher, editor, and mother. Her essays have appeared in publications such as Fourth Genre, Vela Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, and her manuscript, HEART RADICAL, was selected by Cheryl Strayed as 1st runner-up in Kore Press’s 2018 memoir contest. Born and raised in Seattle, Anne teaches nonfiction at the Hugo House.
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“Hapa Tales:” Mixed Race memoir probes colonial legacy of a Hawaiian word

by Anne Liu Kellor
Throughout “Hapa Tales and Other Lies,” author Sharon H. Chang interrogates her evolving relationship to her Mixed Race identity, to Hawai’i, and to the problematic use of the word “hapa.”
Oct 16, 2018