Margaret Chula

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Margaret Chula lived in Japan for twelve years where she taught English and creative writing at Kyoto universities. She also studied the traditional arts of woodblock printing and received a teacher’s license in the Sogetsu School of Ikebana. Her award-winning poetry collections include: Grinding my ink; This Moment; Shadow Lines (with Rich Youmans); Always Filling, Always Full; and The Smell of Rust. Programs from her recent book, What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps, a seven-year collaboration with quilt artist Cathy Erickson, have been presented at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, the Portland Japanese Garden, and the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center. Several of her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Kyoto Journal, Poet Lore, America’s Review, Runes, and her haiku have been translated into ten languages. Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Culture Council have supported her writing as well as fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Maggie has been an usher for Friends of Chamber Music for sixteen years.  www.margaretchula.com