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Elizabeth Miki Brina will receive an MFA in Creative Writing from University of New Orleans. She is currently working on a memoir that focuses on her mother and the rarely told history of Okinawa. Her work has appeared in Bad Pony and Hippocampus and is forthcoming in Crab Fat, New Delta Review, So to Speak and Under the Gum Tree. She teaches ESL at a community college.