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Carolyn Forche
Theresa Rebeck
Ruth Ozeki
Women Playwrights
Festival

An Evening with Ruth Ozeki.
Ruth Ozeki, author of the award-winning novel My Year of Meats, worked for more than a decade in television and film. Her documentary and dramatic films have been shown on PBS, at the Sundance Film Festival, and at colleges and universities across the country.

Discussion led by Amy Wheeler

Running time: 90 minutes
Recommended for ages TBD and above.



The Author

Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut , by an American father and a Japanese mother. She studied English and Asian Studies at Smith College and traveled extensively in Asia. She received a Japanese Ministry of Education Fellowship to do graduate work in classical Japanese literature at Nara University . During her years in Japan, she worked in Kyoto's entertainment or "water" district as a bar hostess, studied flower arrangement as well as Noh drama and mask carving, founded a language school, and taught in the English Department at Kyoto Sangyo University.

Ozeki returned to New York in 1985 and began a film career as an art director, designing sets and props for low budget horror movies. She switched to television production, and after several years directing documentary-style programs for a Japanese company, she started making her own films. "Body of Correspondence" (1994) won the New Visions Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and was aired on PBS. "Halving the Bones" (1995), an award-winning autobiographical film, tells the story of Ozeki’s journey as she brings her grandmother's remains home from Japan . It has been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art , the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Margaret Mead Film Festival, among others. Ozeki’s films, now in educational distribution, are shown at universities, museums and arts venues around the world.

Ozeki, a frequent speaker on college and university campuses, currently divides her time between New York City, where she serves on the board of Women Make Movies, and British Columbia , where she writes, knits socks, and raises exotic Chinese chickens with her husband, artist, Oliver Kellhammer.

Visit the author's website HERE.

The Literary Series Team

Stacie Burgua (WICA Executive Director), Amy Wheeler (Hedgebrook Executive Director), Deana Duncan (WICA Production Director), Vito Zingarelli (Hedgebrook Residency Director), Jason Dittmer (WICA Director of Marketing), M. Louise McKay (Hedgebrook Director of Donor Relations & Fund Development)

The Readers

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