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
2020-21 Courses
- Contemporary Asian American Stories
ENGLISH 169D (Win) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Aut, Spr) - Screenwriting Intensive
ENGLISH 190SW (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
2019-20 Courses
- Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Aut, Win) - Fiction into Film
ENGLISH 190F (Win) - Novel Salon
ENGLISH 190NS (Spr) - Screenwriting Intensive
ENGLISH 190SW (Spr)
2018-19 Courses
- Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Spr) - Screenwriting Intensive
ENGLISH 190SW (Spr) - The Graphic Novel
ENGLISH 190G (Aut, Win)
2017-18 Courses
- Creative Nonfiction
ENGLISH 91 (Aut) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Aut) - Fiction into Film
ENGLISH 190F (Win) - Special Topics in Intermediate Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 190T (Spr)
- Fiction Writing