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Patricia M. Wakida is a Yonsei whose parents were interned as children in the Jerome and Gila River camps. She is a graduate of Mills College, where she concentrated in English literature and Asian Studies. Patricia M. Wakida’s published books, essays, stories, and poetry include: Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience; Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori; Generations Experience; A Japanese American Community Portrait; Letters of Intent; the San Francisco Bay Guardian; Nikkei Heritage; Kyoto Journal; Santa Barbara Review; and the International Quarterly. Patricia currently serves on the board of the San Francisco Center for the Book and the Oakland Living History Project at Mills College.
