Bio
Shimon Tanaka has published fiction in and won prizes from The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train Stories, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and AGNI, and has been anthologized in Best New American Voices. He has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Stegner Fellowship. He is currently at work on a novel exploring Japanese propaganda artists and Kim Il Sung's Repatriation Project. He lives in San Francisco.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Creative Writing
2023-24 Courses
- AAPI Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 190A (Spr) - Contemporary Asian American Stories
ASNAMST 169D, ENGLISH 169D (Aut) - Creative Nonfiction
ENGLISH 91 (Win) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Aut, Spr) -
Independent Studies (2)
- Honors Work
FEMGEN 105 (Spr) - Individual Work
ENGLISH 198 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Honors Work
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Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Contemporary Asian American Stories
ASNAMST 169D, ENGLISH 169D (Spr) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Spr) - The Graphic Novel
ENGLISH 190G (Aut) - The Graphic Novel
ENGLISH 190H (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Contemporary Asian American Stories
ASNAMST 169D, ENGLISH 169D (Win) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Novel Salon
ENGLISH 190NS (Spr)
2020-21 Courses
- Contemporary Asian American Stories
ASNAMST 169D, ENGLISH 169D (Win) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Aut, Spr) - Screenwriting Intensive
ENGLISH 190SW (Spr)
- Contemporary Asian American Stories